Purpose:

Networking

About Me:

Michael S. Rose is a 4Marks.com columnist. He holds degrees in Architecture and Literary Arts from Brown University and the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of six books, including the NY Times bestseller Goodbye, Good Men as well as Ugly As Sin, In Tiers of Glory, The Renovation Manipulation, Priest, and Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger. He is Associate Editor at New Oxford Review, where he also writes a monthly column called "The News You May Have Missed." His articles and editorials have also appeared in dozens of venues such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, The American Conservative, Catholic World Report, Adoremus Bulletin, The Wanderer and The Latin Mass. He has been interviewed on more than 150 television and radio programs such as Crossfire, Rush Limbaugh, Alan Keyes, G. Gordon Liddy, Sean Hannity, and FoxNews's Rita Cosby Live. In 2006, he and his family lived in Malta, where he was gathering information for a book he's now writing on "The Last Catholic Nation."

Saints:	St. Bernadette Soubirous St. Francis de Sales St. Catherine of Sienna St. Thomas Aquinas St. Jane de Chantal St. Edmund Campion
Places:	London, Malta, Rome, Venice, Paris, Milos
Books:	The Power & the Glory by Graham Greene Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky The Trial by Franz Kafka The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Quotes:	"A man does not grow a beard in a moment of passion." -- G.K. Chesteron “The more married men you have, the fewer crimes there will be.” -- Voltaire "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde "All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men." -- Hilaire Belloc "Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew." -- Charles Dickens "I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of fools." -- Wilkie Collins "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." -- Noel Coward

Name:

Old St. Mary's Cincinnati, OH USA

Employer:	New Oxford Review Berkeley, CA USA
Position:	Associate Editor

Graduate School:	Brown University — Class of 1995
Concentration 1:	English -- Literary Arts

College:	University of Cincinnati — Class of 1993
Concentration 1:	Architecture

2009-03-25

Ugly As Sin

Apr 28th 2009	Touchdown Reilly! Touchdown...
Mar 19th 2009	Benedict the Bogeyman & the...
Jan 28th 2009	Pope Benedict's Tightrope Act