Diamonds in the Rough Archives - Archdiocese of Baltimore

May 14, 2020

Discipleship – There’s an app for that!

Rather than connecting some pop culture offering of this moment, I want to promote The Chosen because I want to promote Jesus and discipleship.

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.Blog, Commentary, Diamonds in the Rough

April 28, 2020

Don’t waste a good quarantine

This quarantine is an opportunity, not a crisis. And like any opportunity, it can be wasted. We cannot allow that to happen.

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.Blog, Coronavirus, Diamonds in the Rough

January 30, 2020

‘You ain’t never had a friend like Him’

God is not a genie; but he is intimately fond of us. He would do anything for you – not because he is our slave, but because he is nothing but love.

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.Blog, Diamonds in the Rough

January 14, 2020

What I did on my Christmas holiday

The nature of true argument is not to destroy the interlocutor. It’s not even to “win,” really. The point of debate and argument in the classical sense it to delve into and arrive at the Truth.

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.Blog, Diamonds in the Rough

December 12, 2019

Everyone who comes to us should be reminded that through their Baptism, they are priests, prophets, and kings -- not just in some fairy-tale sense, but truly, because their relationship with Christ makes them so.

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.Blog, Diamonds in the Rough