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Respecting Your Mental Powers
“All men by nature desire to know.” So Aristotle begins his Metaphysics. We desire to know what is and we desire…
Browsing: Learn & Live the Faith
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On Writing in Dark Times
In a (very) recent episode of the confessional Lutheran podcast “Issues, Etc.,” Matt Harrison, interviewing Allan Carlson, reflected on the…
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Advent: A Time to Prepare for the Lord’s Coming
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.…
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A Spoonful of Grace
The little boy is playing happily on the kitchen floor. Mommy is busy above, at the counter, far over his…
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Unnatural Law? An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell
A particular “hot-button” issue facing contemporary American culture concerns homosexuality and the Catholic Church. The general position of the Catholic…
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Witnessing in the Here and Now
Having offered my initial response to the election of 2012, I promised a more positive column, and that promise is…
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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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Beyond Thanksgrieving
No family really lives a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving. Life is easier once you accept that. Then the unbearable happens. We…
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The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship: Part IV
For Part I of this series, go here; for Part II, here; for Part III, here. This is the final installment. “And…
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Becoming a Holy Family
“As for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 “What does it mean to be a…