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Maternal Mystery: Rosary Brings Us to Christ Through Mary
This mosaic appears in the apse of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome. The first time I saw it, I was spellbound. I had never before seen […]
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What a Surge in Conversions Might Mean
Have you ever been sitting in a parked car when something catches your peripheral vision? In a panic, you imagine your car has started to roll forward and you slam […]
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Thin Places in November
Walking around my neighborhood this fall, I saw many skeletons. Bones seemed to protrude from every lawn. One evening, taking a walk in the encroaching darkness, a skeleton I hadn’t […]
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Laws Cover Unethical Actions in Medicine
In recent decades, lawmakers have been pressured to provide legal cover in the form of “immunity from prosecution” for medical personnel who participate in various unethical practices. One involves physician-assisted […]
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Spreading the Fire of God’s Love
I am excellent at doing house chores like cleaning the bathroom, vacuuming, or picking up the living room. My bride and my former roommates would likely disagree, but when I […]
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The Theology of Lullabies
When I was a child, I thought I was the luckiest kid in the world because I got four lullabies sung to me every night – one each from my […]
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An Unsinkable Faith
It was a Monday afternoon in November of 1975 when Debbie Champeau got the call. The 17-year-old, a senior at St. Pius XI in Milwaukee, left school immediately, taking two […]
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To Embrace God Himself
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, something that is worth pondering anew is the role of the word of God in our lives. Often, we can come […]
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Shut Up and Listen
The pub we were sitting in one evening was quiet enough to hear other people talking, and I heard my young friend at the other end of the long table […]
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Silence in a Noisy World
We live in a noisy world. I’m not just talking about rush hour traffic or the planes that make an approach to the Philadelphia airport far above my head at […]
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Beauty as Truth?
Why do we suffer? How does God allow it? Where is God when we hurt? These are typical questions of theodicy: the attempt to account for God’s goodness in the […]
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Hatred and Learning from History
Why do we want to learn about the dark times, the ugly times, in our country? It is a relevant question today, as museum displays and park exhibits are being […]