After all the research, writing, editing, rewriting, and efforts to get a book published, most Catholic authors are well aware of the challenges of raising awareness and interest for readers to take a chance on a Catholic book, fiction or non-fiction. Many in the Catholic Writers Guild have been doing […]
Pastor and Poet: A Portrait
It’s There I can hear it spiral the tornado howl the blizzard force against the kitchen wall push the sixteen-wheeler on I-35 into a jack knife down a deep ditch blast me in a straight derecho drive with an August mid-day surprise. I can feel it burn my face more […]
Poetry Sunday from Katie O’Neil
For Easter, I feel like the focus is joyousness–both spiritually and in the natural world around us there seems to be more joy, strength and life. More sunlight raises the level of general happiness in most people so there’s even internal ‘renewal’! Shelley’s “The Isle” is a poem in this […]
Ignoring the Splendor of God by Dennis P. McGeehan
Forget about discussing Politics and Religion, if you really want to heat things up start a discussion about Science and Religion. For many people the two are mutually exclusive, like Dry Water, but in reality each one attempts to understand the fundamentals of Creation. There are many different Religions and […]
Faithful Hypocrites by Dennis P. McGeehan
Words are powerful elements, they can lift a person up or destroy them. Jesus understood this when He said it is not what a person eats that makes them unclean but what comes out of them. Our tongues can lie, slander and ruin a person. In the past fifty years […]
Member News: Michael Seagriff publishes Fleeting Glimpses of the Silly, Sentimental, and Sublime
CWG member Michael Seagriff recently published his second book, Fleeting Glimpses of the Silly, Sentimental and Sublime. He writes: This collection of twenty original stories and reflections are intended by the author to bring its readers laughter at a time they feel forlorn, comfort when they are overburdened with […]
Intentional Discipleship and Building Trust, by Martina Kreitzer
When I first saw this series being featured on CatholicMom.com, I just knew I wanted to participate! I’m nothing if not a witness for the Faith, so naturally I inquired about how to sign up. You see, my time serving a three year term on my parish Pastoral Council recently […]
Comparison is the Death of Creativity by Rhonda Ortiz
Ever look at your peers’ work and think, “Mine’s doo-doo?” I have. I too often look at others’ writing and praise its merits at the expense of denigrating my own work. What is it that makes me see every good piece of writing as a judgment on my own? This […]
Podcasts, the Truth, and the Good Shepherd
This past Good Shepherd Sunday, I realized that, although I am called to be a shepherd of souls, in the Person of Christ, the Ultimate Good Shepherd, I am also a sheep of His flock. And the one thing about sheep is that they are quite dumb and easily led […]
The Easter Vigil
Lights at the tomb of Jesus, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.