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Through the Lens of the 16th and 21st Centuries: The Problem of Evil.

“Don’t ignore the presence of the demonic in these people and their actions,” he cautioned me.

Father, May They Be One, As You and I Are One

At the daily Mass celebrating the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I was enthralled by the way Fr. Chris Kanowitz began his homily for this day. This newly ordained priest has a gift. One I have written about elsewhere.

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Dunkirk, The Movie and The Miracle-Why See It?

Perhaps like me, you have scant knowledge about the early years of World War ll? Therefore, have never heard of the military disaster at Dunkirk and the miraculous civilian rescues of over 300,000 doomed British soldiers?

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Power of Sacrament: We Cannot Do It Alone

We cannot do it alone: Without the Church and Her sacraments, we hinder, even prohibit the effects of God's prodigious gifts in our lives, His beloved creatures. Recent experience with two families I know well, one Hispanic Christian Catholic, the other, unchurched but claiming to be Christian, has reinforced my understanding of this fact.

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Dumbing Down The Vocabulary Of Faith

I learned the phrase, “dumbing down” from one of the editors at a British publishing company Blackwell Scientific Publishing Company. Richard understood my goal to produce a textbook which challenged and would provide a breadth of physiology and pathophysiology not available in competing texts.

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Botched Suffering

Botched suffering: What an elegant phrase. Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel writes from France during the 1940’s...”have we ever thought that the fact of botching a small part of our daily suffering-whether it be by getting up with bad grace... turning up our nose at insipid food is of greater significance to the real history of the world than the current disaster or victory reported on the radio?

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Medjugorje, Two Popes, and Me

Medjugorje: The alleged site of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six young visionaries beginning in 1981 ignited a storm of controversy and persecution. Thirty-six years later, questions remain unanswered to the satisfaction of skeptical Catholic and secular minds.

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Mud Cookies: Imagine Feeding Your Children Some?

"When there is no food for three or four days, the children cry from the pain. So I make them mud cookies to fill up their stomachs." The missionary priest, Monsignor Patrick Marron from Food for the Poor, quoted a woman living in a village of about two hundred people about 20 miles from Port Au Prince, the capital of Haiti.

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The West is Ablaze- With Wildflowers

The west is ablaze. The wildflowers in California are ablaze with wildflowers, not with wildfires but flowers. The blooms along the west coast are so intense they can be seen from space! But the long drought is also over in the nearby high desert of the Pinion mountains of northern Nevada.

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Silence: Apostacy, Jesuit Priests, 17th Century Japan

Last December, the movie Silence opened to a conflicting maze of reviews. Some greatly praising the film and others exceedingly critical of the tale of the 'apostate Jesuit priests' of seventeenth century Japan. I watched it three days ago and am still pondering its meaning.

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CS Lewis's The Great Divorce: Easter Reflections

CS Lewis is an inexhaustible source of wisdom for me. Whether reading his science fiction, fantasy, or his imaginative meditations on our Lord, Heaven, Hell and the Christian life, I find each replete with gentle humor and clear-eyed truths.

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Death, Hope, Heaven- What Are We Here for Anyway?

In my pre-Catholic ‘pagan’ years, I worried about death. Mostly because I feared standing before a God I did not think I believed in and explaining why I had wasted knowledge, understanding, and time. After twenty years as a Catholic, I would like to think that anxiety is gone.

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Conclave- Robert Harris’ Novel of Power and Intrigue in the Vatican

Conclave is the best of Robert Harris' novels, high praise because Harris is an excellent writer of historical fiction. Each of his books reveals the writer's journalistic background: Rich in detail and imagery, Harris' extensive research for each story is evident. Conclave is all of that but much more.

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The Prodigal Son Or Older Brother?

For converts like me, the story of the prodigal son evokes a tsunami of emotion: gratitude, relief, sorrow and recognition are only a few. But upon reflecting on the well-known parable that Jesus tells the complaining Pharisees and scribes, I began to think about the older brother with an entirely different lens.

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Consequences of Tepid Christianity: The Boston Marathon Bomber's Widow

I saw Peter Berg’s recently released film, Patriots Day over a month ago. Of the many heroes portrayed in this movie, there is just one person who has taken up residence in my memory. She is a minor character, the woman now known as the “Boston Marathon Bombers widow.” Her presence in the film is shadowy, flashes of her presence, always in the background. Intentionally so.

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