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Ordinary Time, 4th Sunday. Jesus predicts that the people of Nazareth will reject him — and they do! You can’t sing half-heartedly, you can’t love half-heartedly, and you can’t be a disciple of Jesus half-heartedly. Can we really love like God does? If we follow Jesus whole-heartedly, all things are possible. (3 Feb 2013)
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Ord24 – Take up your Cross (14:50)
Ordinary Time, 24th Sunday. September 11, 2001. The JFK Assassination. The bombing of Pearl Harbor. Why does God allow [...]
I must confess that I like superhero movies, and for as long as I can remember I have wanted superpowers. I never could settle on exactly what power to have, that was too limiting, but I certainly wanted the power to stare down the barrel of a gun and smile at the goon holding his [...]
Some time ago I published a series of three articles on why the Catholic priesthood is not open to women. (Since this continues to be an important issue, they can be found under the Priesthood section of this blog). Recently, a woman wandered over to our blog because she was looking for an answer to [...]
The Second Vatican Council opened in 1963, a time when the world had recently experienced much turmoil, the horror of two World Wars, and the terror of the attempt to exterminate the Jewish nation. I have read many interpretations of what motivated Nazi Germany to carry out this evil, but none of them have explained [...]
In a post about marriage a couple weeks ago, I said that our modern way to look at marriage tends to be in terms of self-fulfillment. This is actually a form of selfishness, which makes it difficult to accept children and nearly impossible to truly love. A very clear portrayal of where that attitude [...]
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GK Chesterton once commented that people misunderstand the relationship of Jesus and the Church. They often think that Jesus is simple and nice, but the Church has made things complicated and confusing. The opposite is true. Jesus is sometimes complicated and confusing and the [...]
Twelve Lessons on the Catholic Faith – by Fr. Benjamin Sember
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