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On Losing the Faith
It has happened to not a few laymen, religious, priests, and bishops over the centuries, and it remains as harsh and threatening a reality today as ever. The specter of losing the Catholic faith that...
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Tuesday of Holy Week
In today’s Mass we read of the account of Judas in John’s Gospel. Judas is ever an upsetting character. He is not like Peter or the Good Thief who did some rather nasty things but managed to repent of...
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The Passion Begins
Today’s is a challenging assignment: To write on the beginning of Christ’s Passion this evening, the deicide by which (you all know the back story) mankind’s Original Sin in Eden and (conservatively...
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A Higher Power
Senior Editor’s Note: Dear Readers, I am sad to inform you of the death of our beloved contributor, Karen Walter Goodwin. She met the Lord late Sunday after a long, heroic battle against cancer. In...
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Sites Ancient and Modern
As I write, I have sitting on my desk a stone I picked up in ancient Delphi. (I didn’t break off a piece of some ancient temple or other building in the large complex – I am no modern-day Vandal. I...
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On Promises
We read in Deuteronomy 1, “Support me, O Lord, according to your promises….” It takes a certain amount of boldness even to ask the Lord to keep His promises, let alone to recognize that He made any to...
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Christmas, time, and eternity
I need to begin with a confession: I’m one of those people who gets his Christmas cards done way ahead of time. This year I started a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, which is more or less what I...
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Moses and Monotheism
Watching the early scenes of Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, you may flashback to Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956). Both films begin with sibling rivalry and monument building. But...
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Love Does Such Things
According to the Bible, God entered into time in a specific manner, acting on an self-chosen decision made in complete freedom. . . .this journey of God from the everlasting into the transitory, this...
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Two Nations, One Under God
Over forty years ago, the Supreme Court coopted my mother’s birthday by deciding Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22, 1973. Over and above her prolife convictions, the ill-timed anniversary keeps the yearly March...
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Appreciating the Office of Readings
The American novelist Saul Bellow once spoke about “the tyranny of perceptions,” those evanescent opinions that daily flood our society and divide it. He was concerned that these were being substituted...
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God, Good, and Good-Enough Fathers
I have not read Harper Lee’s just released Go Set a Watchman, her sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, and I’ve decided not to do so. That’s because I cannot bear to give up Scout’s father Atticus, as...
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Sites Ancient and Modern
As I write, I have sitting on my desk a stone I picked up in ancient Delphi. (I didn’t break off a piece of some ancient temple or other building in the large complex – I am no modern-day Vandal. I...
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On Promises
We read in Deuteronomy 1, “Support me, O Lord, according to your promises….” It takes a certain amount of boldness even to ask the Lord to keep His promises, let alone to recognize that He made any to...
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Christmas, time, and eternity
I need to begin with a confession: I’m one of those people who gets his Christmas cards done way ahead of time. This year I started a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, which is more or less what I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moses and Monotheism
Watching the early scenes of Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, you may flashback to Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956). Both films begin with sibling rivalry and monument building. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Love Does Such Things
According to the Bible, God entered into time in a specific manner, acting on an self-chosen decision made in complete freedom. . . .this journey of God from the everlasting into the transitory, this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two Nations, One Under God
Over forty years ago, the Supreme Court coopted my mother’s birthday by deciding Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22, 1973. Over and above her prolife convictions, the ill-timed anniversary keeps the yearly March...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Appreciating the Office of Readings
The American novelist Saul Bellow once spoke about “the tyranny of perceptions,” those evanescent opinions that daily flood our society and divide it. He was concerned that these were being substituted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
God, Good, and Good-Enough Fathers
I have not read Harper Lee’s just released Go Set a Watchman, her sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, and I’ve decided not to do so. That’s because I cannot bear to give up Scout’s father Atticus, as...
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