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Frank J. Connor

Frank J. Connor is the author of The Ridiculous Man and The Progressive Reports. He is a former journalist at Fox News and worked as an analyst at a prominent bond rating agency. Frank graduated from Villanova University in 2019, where he earned a degree in economics and wrote his first book. After years of discernment, he responded to a call to the Catholic priesthood and entered the Order of Saint Augustine in the summer of 2021 where he is currently in formation.
Why Does Our Misery Surprise Us?
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Why Does Our Misery Surprise Us?

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023

Why are our people killing themselves in droves? Why are they rending their own bodies in barbaric surgical procedures? Why do they despair of life?

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Cheating 20th Century Prophets: Part II
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Cheating 20th Century Prophets: Part II

March 4, 2023April 5, 2023

Scipio dreaded for you, when he stopped the building of theaters, when he saw how easily you could be corrupted and perverted by prosperity… He

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Cheating 20th Century Prophets: Part I
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Cheating 20th Century Prophets: Part I

February 4, 2023March 8, 2023

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it

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Frank J. Connor: Merry Christmas
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Frank J. Connor: Merry Christmas

December 25, 2022December 24, 2022

In the forty-second year of the reign of Caesar Octavian Augustus, the whole world being at peace, an infant—free of all selfish inclinations—giggled beneath the

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A World Smaller than Glen Rock
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A World Smaller than Glen Rock

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022

It may seem unlikely, but the world you live in is smaller than Glen Rock, New Jersey. It is said that the average American meets

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Heaven on Hudson
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Heaven on Hudson

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

The following poem was written during a retreat in Rhinebeck, New York in September of 2022 when looking out at the view in the featured

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Colt 1911: Defending Democracy of the Dead
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Colt 1911: Defending Democracy of the Dead

November 22, 2022February 25, 2023

There is something extremely satisfying about shooting an old firearm. You can feel the history when you squeeze the trigger and glean a sense of

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Looking Down a Tree
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Looking Down a Tree

November 13, 2022November 18, 2022

Many people today find themselves in the curious position of looking down a tree. They look around at a world of beautiful and terrible things.

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The Ridiculous Man
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The Ridiculous Man

November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

In a dystopian future, detective Paul Brown comes across a ridiculous man in tweed, preaching to a flock of pigeons, who introduces him to life

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