On Remaining Catholic
A few mornings ago, while enjoying my morning swim, I noticed a small bird sitting atop a tall palm tree. [...]
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12, 2019
The Catholic Church and Women
For Catholics, as well as Jews and other Christians, the story of man’s relationship with woman begins in the Book [...]
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12, 2019
The Greatest Human Fault
What is the greatest human fault? I believe it is self-deception, which causes or enables virtually all other faults. In addition [...]
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11, 2019
The Path of the Wandering Calf
Many years ago, when I was a college professor, I came across a poem by Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) that [...]
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11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden, Part 3
The Cushing principle discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this essay—that expressing one’s beliefs in the public square [...]
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11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden, Part 2
Richard Cardinal Cushing Part 1 of this essay argued that the denial of communion to Joe Biden was [...]
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11, 2019
Denying Communion to Joe Biden
In the midst of his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination, former Vice-President Joe Biden was denied Holy Communion by [...]
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11, 2019
The Cost of Denying Conscience
For millennia the concept of conscience was prominent in virtually every religious and secular ethical system, though interpretations of its [...]
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10, 2019
Does Prayer Really Matter?
The subject of the homily in a Church near my own parish was prayer. The homilist declared that praying for [...]
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10, 2019
The Power of Small Deeds
St. Teresa of Calcutta reportedly said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things [...]