Monday, September 14, 2009

In Florida Prison Former Owner of UK Paper Finds Peace Through Catholicism

An interesting article at the Telegraph. See Conrad Black: I have found serenity through Catholicism in jail

This sort of jumped out to me

“The Catholic life in the prison where I write is active and intellectually stimulating,” writes Lord Black, a convert to Roman Catholicism and major shareholder in the Herald.
“Confidence that there is at least some sort of an organising principle in the world, the experience that worship sometimes produces - which can enhance an understanding of travails and observations - and some metaphysical background, do provide a hinterland for perceptions, and with it, relative serenity and proportionality, even, and perhaps especially, in times of extreme tension, poignancy, and adversity. And there have been some
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So the Catholic life might be more productive in a Pris ion than in many of own own Parishes!!

Still it points out the importance of Catholic Ministry in Prison.

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