Author

Kevin T. Di Camillo

Kevin T. Di Camillo is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in America, Columbia, The Priest, National Catholic Register, James Joyce Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the author of three books of poetry. With Father Lawrence Boadt, he founded The Paulist Press Deacon’s Library.

Sacraments

That green light is on

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For those of us old enough to remember, the saying “Mass on Sunday — confession on Saturday” is, in large measure, no longer true for many Catholics.  But prior to the Second Vatican Council, this was the way the sacraments worked; there…
Books

THE NAME OF THE ROSE at Forty

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by Kevin Di Camillo In 1980, a pretty much unknown Italian author—he’d only written a couple of children’s books and some graduate-level textbooks on semiotics (the study of signs), James Joyce and St. Thomas Aquinas—named Umberto Eco…
Love Your Neighbor

Why not be a monk?

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BY KEVIN T. DI CAMILLO Perhaps one of the biggest detriments to young men entering the monastic life is the lifelong commitment — that, plus the extremely long time it takes to become a monk. And, of course, the vows of poverty, chastity,…
Sacraments

Catholic jargon 101

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Many years ago I edited a book titled Now That You Are Catholic by Fr. John J. Kenny, an introduction to Catholic customs for the newly initiated. While the book offered great advice for Catholic neophytes, it did not touch on the many…
Faith

Habit by Mary

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The religious habit: It’s what separates, on sight, the laity from the professed religious (and, for that matter, the secular clergy.) And of the dozens and dozens of religious orders, congregations, and societies, only a very few wear a…