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August 2021

August 10, 2021

Jesus’ Second Coming Should Be the Rosary’s Last Mystery

Missing Mystery is also missing in many Catholics’ Faith Ever since my long-ago younger days...

July 2021

July 11, 2021

Resurrection: For the Apostles, It Took a While to Sink In

With the concepts of altered states of consciousness and conversion, I argue for the truthfulness...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

The Liturgy of the Word: More than Listening

The first of the two main parts of the Mass is a sharing of God’s...

June 29, 2021

Fragments Disrupt Oppressive Systems in ‘Fragments’ by David Tracy

On Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, “Introduction” The first of David Tracy’s two...

June 27, 2021

The Living God and Some New Quests

Elizabeth Johnson Maps ‘Frontiers in the Theology of God’ My favorite book store is the...

June 15, 2021

Civil Defense Protest, June 15, 1955: 17 Sane People Arrested

The 1950’s was a scary, insane time. I didn’t know then how insane it was,...

June 11, 2021

American Families Plan: Is Biden’s Proposal Liberal Enough, Catholic Enough?

Or could a proposal by a Republican writer be more liberal, more Catholic? President Joe...

April 2021

April 20, 2021

Address the Prayer of the Faithful to God, Please

I notice something odd about the Prayer of the Faithful that I hear at Sunday...

March 2021

March 21, 2021

Theologies and a New Paradigm: Mutually Critical Correlations

Part 7 On David Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter 6, on Interpretation Theory David Tracy has repeated...

February 2021

February 02, 2021

“The Pillar,” New, Interesting Catholic News Source

The Pillar on Joe Biden, Science, and Two Catholic Issues The new Catholic online source...

December 2020

December 10, 2020

The Impossible and the Infinitely Loving God: Mystics and Making Peace with Infinity

Chapter 5 of David Tracy’s Fragments, Part Two I said in a previous post that...

November 2020

November 14, 2020

The Pro-life President Trump Could Have Been

Imagine a second term for a truly pro-life Donald Trump and a congratulatory phone call...

October 2020

October 17, 2020

Writing about the Infinite God – And Trying to Like Infinity, Part 1

On David Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter 5, “Metaphysics, Theology, and Mysticism” How do I write about...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

BirthStrike Movement to Dissolve Next Week

An article by The Guardian’s liberal columnist George Monbiot could have been written by any...

July 2020

July 15, 2020

Suffering: No Why’s, No Theodicies, but a Crucified God Suffers with Us

On Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter 4, Christianity and Suffering Suffering looms large in Tracy’s recent thought,...

July 02, 2020

Ancient Greek Tragedy, a Response to Horror and Suffering

On David Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter Three Suffering and tragedy has been an important theme for...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

If Black Lives Mattered, We Wouldn’t Have to Say It

Now everybody knows about Juneteenth because Trump, unwittingly, was about to desecrate that day of...

June 17, 2020

The Infinite: Tracy Says a Concept Ancient Greeks Despised is Behind All Naming of God

Part 4 on David Tracy’s Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, Chapter Two Continued...

June 10, 2020

Invisible Things and the Ultimate Infinite Invisible

Part 3 on David Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter Two I’m returning to David Tracy and his...

June 03, 2020

Analogy vs. Logic: Arguing Matters Close to the Heart

The dangerous use of analogy over protest marches People often resort to the literary...

June 01, 2020

Protesters and Rioters: In Minneapolis There’s a Big Difference.

An on-the-spot reporter for Twin Cities WCCO TV thinks the country will look at Minneapolis...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Racism and Sympathies and Minneapolis Riots

Do you sympathize with owners of looted stores? I do … but not too much....

May 27, 2020

Religion, Non-Reductive and Saturated, Gains Respect in Post-Modern Academic World

Some tricky vocabulary in Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter One A philosophical dictionary or some background in...

May 23, 2020

Fragments Disrupt Oppressive Systems: David Tracy’s ‘Fragments’

On Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, “Introduction” The first of David Tracy’s two...

May 17, 2020

David Tracy, Theologian for the ‘Publics,’ Publishes Two New Books

Out This Year -- Fragments: The Existential Situation of our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles...

May 09, 2020

Economic Scarcity and Eucharistic Abundance: Two Stories about the World

Part 7 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire Economy, says William T. Cavanaugh in...

May 03, 2020

Septima Poinsette Clark, Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement

Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals, in its May 3 entry, tells about one who was...

May 01, 2020

The DREAM Act was Introduced in Congress First by … Not a Democrat!

Stories from the Magazine of the Catholic University of America My copy of “Catholic,” the...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Thin Places, McDonald’s World, and the Difference the Eucharist Makes

Part 6 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire A few years back a Presbyterian...

April 19, 2020

About Butterflies and the Afterlife — A Neat Thought Heard on Public Radio

One of the reasons I like national public radio is that it recognizes that religion...

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