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Praying It or Saying It?

Praying It or Saying It?

G.K. Chesterton once quipped that “familiarity is fatigue.”  This can describe our approach to the Mass.  Because of the predictability ...
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The Lord's Day

The Lord’s Day

If Aristotle were to return to the earth in 2015 and see all that has been accomplished he would assume ...
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Finding Beauty in the Church

Finding Beauty in the Church

One of the great tragedies of recent times is that we have lost the sense of the beautiful.  We have ...
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Unlocking the Puzzle

Unlocking the Puzzle

I hate Autism.  I can never say that enough.  Because of the way that it attacks children and causes such ...
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Apostles of Mercy

Apostles of Mercy

Pope St. John Paul II has been referred to by many as the “Mercy Pope.”  When the Diary of St ...
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The Sin of the Century

The Sin of the Century

In a 1946 address to the United States Catechetical Congress, Pope Pius XII identified the “sin of the century as ...
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Deconstructing the Jesus Myth

Deconstructing the Jesus Myth

Just as sure as Easter coming on the first Sunday after the first full moon in Spring is the seasonal ...
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A Compelling State Interest?

A Compelling State Interest?

With the passage of Indiana’s Religious Freedom and Restoration Act and as similar laws begin to pop-up all over the ...
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Knowing the Enemy

Knowing the Enemy

One of the more glaring omissions of the Passion accounts in the Gospels is that no attempt to explore the ...
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Putting the Horse Before the Cart

Putting the Horse Before the Cart

Quick quiz:  what two characters of the Passion are named in each of the daily Gospel readings that the Church ...
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