Soliloquy in an International Cloister

Watch your step as Brother Lawrence takes you inside the monastery walls of a five hundred year-old international order. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish you had ignored your hormones and joined the monastery.

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14 January 2011

What's in a name?

There is a marriage preparation course, apparently widely-used among American Catholic marriage ministers, called FOCCUS. Digging into the website, I found that the name is an acronym for "Facilitate Open, Caring Communication, Understanding and Study." Fair enough, but could the program's creators really have been so irony-challenged?

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