Great one minute video on the heart of Thrive

THRIVING from Catholic Thrive on Vimeo.

Orphans and singles, singles and orphans, you bring the two together and it’s like a nuclear bomb of love, a miracle potion.  Orphans and singles are like two sides of the same coin, two halves of the same whole, a perfect fit.  When we meet for the first time it’s more like we’re finding each other again after a long separation, a type of homecoming. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I met with Dan Schreck, Director of Young Adult Outreach for the Archdiocese of New York, at the big clock in the center of Grand Central Station.  We were there to talk about Catholic Thrive, the new revolution connecting young adults and singles of all ages to each other and to the Church.  I was a few minutes late because I walked by a free piano concert, Chopin and Beethoven, in the lobby of one of the skyscrapers and I had to go in and listen  – right off the sidewalk and into another world of tenderness and majesty and the power of the human spirit leaping out from the hearts of the great composers through the fingers of this anonymous, to me, pianist in the heart of this great city.  Then I was at the clock with Dan, and we went to eat.  Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone whose heart is pulsing with life loves New York. Everyone who loves the dreams, visions, possibilities and potential of the human experience loves New York. Everyone whose life is lived with passion, with wild abandonment to the great throbbing rhythm of dance and song, of art and beauty, of collaboration and camaraderie in the pursuit of excellence in every human endeavor, simply because there is joy, real joy in coming together with others to strive mightily, to strive with all that we have and all that we are, to make whatever we are making together the very, very best that it can be. Read the rest of this entry »

Mike Huckabee: Faith & Politics

6/20/20096:30 pm

University Club, 54th and 5th, New York, New York 10022

Governor Mike Huckabee - famed Presidential hopefull and current FOX political commentator - joins this premiere series on all things concerning faith and culture. Tickets: 646.201.3375

Great event features many of best minds of our times, including top Catholics such as Peter Kreeft.

Article by my friend Adam Haer

God made women beautiful. When we as men acknowledge women’s beauty and respond to it appropriately, we are agreeing with God and glorifying Him.
And God created the universe in such a way that women are supposed to be asked out on dates…a lot. That is to say, it is not just a good thing; it’s not just a good, properly ordered thing; it’s a good, properly ordered, and necessary thing, and when it doesn’t happen it isn’t merely unfortunate–it’s an affront to God and His universe.
Thus, if an eligible Christian man finds himself attracted to an eligible Christian woman he is MORALLY OBLIGATED to ask her on a date, in much the same way we our obligated to love our neighbor, feed the hungry, or spread the Gospel. Read the rest of this entry »