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Thursday, May 6, 2021

A Tertullian for our Time: Merton for Better and for Worse

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  "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church"     You’re probably familiar with the quote above, a favorite of Pope ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

What Do We Do When Our Priest Is A Communist? (Part I)

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"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life" (John 6:68)   Is this your parish priest?   We live in scary time...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Merton's Parable of the Trappists and the Icarians (Spes in Domino)

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Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Thomas Merton is a name that can provoke a reaction from all manner of Catholics . . . all manner of reactions a...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

What We Owe to Caesar

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       Deciding how to balance what we really owe to Caesar with what we owe to God is a perennial issue for a believing Christian.  In the ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Why the Church is not a Granfalloon

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      The word "community" must test well in focus groups. It pops up everywhere.  Pay attention to advertisements, and you'll...

Aborigines, Atheists, and the Authenticity of the Gospels

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  A few years ago I ran across an amazing story (" Ancient Sea Rise Tale Told Accurately For 10,000 Years ") from Scientific Ameri...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Welcome to Mission Territory

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 " When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything."   G. K. Chesterton     You ha...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

God's Existence isn't a Dark Matter

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  "Ancient of Days" by William Blake,  from Europe a Prophecy , 1794 Once upon a time I taught in a (more or less) Catholic h...

Something Strange is Happening: Holy Saturday

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  Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence becau...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Christ Came To Serve (Holy Thursday)

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  He said to them, "But now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy ...