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September 2019

September 04, 2019

Have you heard of Greta Thunberg?

I was chatting with an old acquaintance up in St. Cloud. She’s from England and...

September 02, 2019

Conversion of an Angel: Some Corporations Show it can be Done

Writing about corporations is a strange way to honor labor – unless it’s about a...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Amazon Fires, the Churches, and the Coming Amazon Synod

Religion News Service published an article on the different ways churches are responding to the...

August 26, 2019

RCIA and the Promise and Perilous Challenge of Baptism

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 12 A lengthy babysitting assignment...

August 19, 2019

A Jeremiah for a Homilist – If Only!

“Jeremiah ought to be put to death,” the princes said to the king. The priest-homilist...

August 14, 2019

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Atomic Bomb, and a Strange Connection

Today is the feast day of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, priest, missionary, founder of monasteries,...

August 12, 2019

Baptism Guarantees that the Church will Always Change

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 11 Baptism takes away Original...

August 09, 2019

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Lamentation, Repentance, and Amendment

One of the things the Church should be able to teach the secular world is...

August 05, 2019

The Story of a Journey of Much More than Souls

On Souls, Reincarnation, and Journey of Souls, Part 3 Christianity tells the story of a...

August 02, 2019

Real Presence, or When is Jesus’ Presence Ever Not Real?

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 10 I was walking through...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Grace in a World of Grace: The Symbiosis of Sacraments and Life

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 9 We live in a...

July 29, 2019

Blessed Stanley Rother, Martyr, Has His First Feast Day

Yesterday, July 28, was the first feast day of Blessed Stanley Rother (ROW-ther). Fr. Rother,...

July 26, 2019

Sacraments, in the World, and for the New World

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 8 Does religion turn people...

July 24, 2019

Look Outside the Sacramental Celebration. It’s not a Distraction.

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 7 Sacraments are celebrations. That...

July 22, 2019

Metaphor: The Right Kind of Language for a Limitless God

On Souls, Reincarnation, and Journey of Souls, Part 2 Journey of Souls by David Newton...

July 19, 2019

Learning about Sacramental Signs

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 6 I have lived through...

July 17, 2019

Emotions in Play: Liking or (Only) Loving the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 5 Catholics through the ages...

July 14, 2019

Two HomiliesToday, and the One in Action was Better

I got my churches mixed up while visiting a daughter in Madison, Wisconsin, and came...

July 12, 2019

A Good Liturgical Celebration Speaks Clearly. Believing it is what’s hard.

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 4 In a good liturgical...

July 10, 2019

The Mystery that is Not Hidden in the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 3 A reflection on the...

July 08, 2019

Old Soul – Now I Know what it Means, Sadly

A couple of times recently I heard someone call my 13-year-old granddaughter an old soul....

July 05, 2019

Jesus, the Master at Life and the One I Meet in the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 2 The Church’s liturgy, her...

July 04, 2019

Remembering and Comparing: How Vatican II Changed The Liturgy

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 1 In the early 1960's I...

July 02, 2019

The Church in Politics: Abortion, Environment, and Being Partisan

Church-state separation is honored in political rhetoric and welcomed by the Church since the 1930’s....

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Gender Theorists: Agreements and Criticisms and a Way Forward

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 3 The Vatican Congregation for...

June 24, 2019

Listening to Gender Theory, but Not Very Well

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 2 The Vatican Congregation for...

June 21, 2019

The Congregation for Catholic Education and Forms of Catholic Modernism

Responding to ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ – Part 1 A recent declaration from...

June 19, 2019

Minnesota was Fourth State to Make Juneteenth State Holiday

Today is Juneteenth. It was only a few years ago I learned that June 19...

June 17, 2019

The New Catholic Left in the Turbulent 1960’s

The last post in the series on Catholic Modern by James Chappel. The turbulent 1960’s...

June 14, 2019

Catholic Consensus in the Consumer Society of the ‘Long 1950’s’

Despite the Catholic Church’s long rejection of materialism, it was a consumer society that brought...

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