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A Trifecta of Dishonesty
In the words of Billy Joel’s 1979 hit ballad, “Honesty,” “Honesty is such a lonely word; everyone is so untrue.”…
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First Week of Advent: From the Incarnation to the Parousia
Wednesday, November 21. I drove eleven hours through the Megalopolis of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. It…
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Letting God Find You
Before my feet touched the floor on January 1st, 2012, I offered a simple prayer: Please Lord, before the year…
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Happy New Year!
Today, we celebrate a New Year’s Day in the Catholic Church. Not unlike the secular New Year’s Day we celebrate…
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How God Makes Beauty from Barrenness
The weather was still chilly on the May morning when I found myself pacing in a northern-Wisconsin parking lot, trying…
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Catholic Politics
The cardinal looked grim. “This is the situation now,” he said. “One political party is dangerous and the other is…
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“Two and a Half Men” Teen is the Real Grown-Up
Another of the stars of the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” has imploded, metaphorically speaking, but this…
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Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
“Absolute power,” Lord Acton wrote, “corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Good and bad can be…
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An Inhuman Economic System
If someone is looking for material for a book with a title like Profiles of an Inhuman Economic System, consider…
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The Word Made Fresh: the Second and Third Epistles of Saint John the Apostle
“Anyone who is so ‘progressive’ as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God” (2…