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There’s at least one other big point to make about Laudato Si’, about the linkage of the poor and the environment, which will wait for another night, because I wanted to post something else instead. I recently heard Paul Tough and picked up his book How Children Succeed, which is not directly related to my
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I posted this before the Supreme Court’s decision. It’s still what I think. Why? Why do we fall into this trap time and again? Our message about marriage as a Church should be about how it uniquely prefigures what God is like. If you want to fully experience what God’s love feels like, wholly give
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My friend Mario, who has a rare zeal for God, shared with loving concern with his Catholic Facebook friends who had shown support for the recent SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality a story from the blog “Courageous Priest”, a post about the archbishop of Detroit implying, and a theologian at a Detroit seminary stating, that
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I continue to hear from people about the loss of my father. Whether it’s on Facebook, e-mail, via card or in person, my reaction is sometimes surprise that people have heard and always gratitude that they noticed. I know some people who would rather not have the reminder of their loss and the awkwardness of
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Much to the chagrin of those I work with, I don’t follow scripts. But once I figured out what I wanted to say at my dad’s service today, I wrote it down. I am Paul’s son Jeff. I feel compelled to start with a joke. If you were around my dad at all — if
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I just recently had a birthday. I’ve always liked when my birthday fell in the calendar, but especially since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was made a national holiday. Now I celebrate my birthday with a long weekend! Even before the holiday, I appreciated that my birthday fell when it did. Practically, a mid-January
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It’s hard to believe that this Easter marks twenty years as a Catholic. When I first joined the Church, I was coming from a position of relative theological strength: I had been raised in a melange of Protestant schools and a great United Methodist church, had majored in religion in college, and was about to
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I apologize to all three of this blog’s followers for writing a post that, ostensibly, is unrelated to Pope Francis and his apostolic exhortation. But I had more to say than would fit in a Facebook post and needed a place to store it. Monday’s gospel was Mark 10:17-27, known as the story of the
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