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Development versus Alteration: The crucial distinction

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Development versus Alteration: The crucial distinction Last Friday’s Office of Readings dealt with development versus alteration: the crucial distinction. Fifth-century monk, Saint Vincent of Lerins, writes enthusiastically of the development of doctrine. Is there to be no development of religion in the Church of Christ? Certainly, there is to be development and on the largest […]

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Recovering Our Lost Integrity

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Recovering our lost integrity “What does God want?” “He wants his creation to recover its lost integrity.” Bishop Barron’s words from his homily for the first Sunday in September, Be Opened, explain everything. While God’s creatures search madly for answers to their despair and sense of meaninglessness, there is just one remedy. Only one method

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Dei Verbum: God Speaks

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Dei Verbum: God speaks It gets our attention. Even in the Latin which I never studied nor grew up with, the words Dei Verbum: God Speaks don’t bounce off. Rather, they burrow. Even if we consider ourselves above or beside all things religious, we alert–like our dogs–at seeing these words. Because he does, doesn’t he?

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The Time is Running Out

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The time is running out The liturgy for Wednesday morning eerily fit the twenty-third anniversary of 9/11. A day that seemed to change everything but In reality accelerated the forces that were already set in motion. Like all first-century Christians, Paul was certain that this world was ending. I tell you, brothers, the time is

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Moderation: A Forgotten Legacy from President Eisenhower

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Moderation: A forgotten legacy from President Eisenhower We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations….we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the

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Goal of Education: To be Fit for Modern World Or?

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Goal of education Although it was a zillion years ago, I well recall my casual summer date’s, “Why liberal arts? What can you do with a degree in English literature?” In just a month, I was moving to Houston to work my way through college for a degree in English literature. I’d spent three years

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Lest We Give Offense: Give Twice What We Don’t Owe

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Lest we give offense Last Monday’s Gospel passage in the Christian liturgy details the peculiar passage about the Capernaum Temple tax. The disciples are reeling from what Jesus has told them at the start of the Gospel: the Son of Man is to be “…handed over to men. And they will kill him and he

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Shall We Build Three Tents: Tu Es Petras

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Shall we build three tents: Tu Es Petras It’s always a surprise to me when The Feast of the Transfiguration rolls around on August sixth. It’s not so on the second Sunday in Lent when we once again celebrate the transfigured Jesus on Mount Tabor. On that Sunday, it feels like the goalpost we each

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Saint James and Medjugorje

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Saint James Church, Medjugorje, Bosnia Saint James and Medjugorje I’d not thought much about Saint James–until Thursday’s daily 6am Mass, that is. July 25 is Saint James the Greater’s Feast Day. During that liturgy, I got a nudge–more a push– to dump the reflection I’d written for today and write this new one. Okay… James

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Return to Right Reason

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Return to right reason “How are you?” I stared at him, choked by the avalanche of tears threatening to erupt. Steve, my former doctoral advisor and head of dissertation committee, nodded and said, “Come see me.” I’d just completed a talk on medical ethics bolstered by my dissertation research.. My professional life was at an

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Development versus Alteration: The crucial distinction

Recovering Our Lost Integrity

Dei Verbum: God Speaks

The Time is Running Out

Moderation: A Forgotten Legacy from President Eisenhower

Goal of Education: To be Fit for Modern World Or?

Lest We Give Offense: Give Twice What We Don’t Owe

Shall We Build Three Tents: Tu Es Petras

Saint James and Medjugorje

Return to Right Reason

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