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2015-06-03T10:24:06-05:00

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That Thin Blue Line of Love (Updated)

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:24 am By Tom Zampino

From today’s reading, May 10, 2015: This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15: 12-13 Just last week it was New York City Police Officer (and fellow Long Islander) Brian Moore, age 25. Today, two more are gone: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Police Officers Benjamin Deen, age 34, and Liquori Tate, age 24. Young men, young lives. Gone. They are three among the countless... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:25:27-05:00

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When Life Overwhelms

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:25 am By Tom Zampino

It’s not something that I particularly wish to dwell upon. But it’s unavoidable. It’s pervasive. And it’s real. It touches each of us in some way. Sometimes measured in smaller or larger degrees of connectedness to others, sometimes reaching down and disemboweling the remains of our own lacerated core. This isn’t at all about the ordinary sadness that we sometimes feel when life disappoints, or when our emotions sometimes get away from us, seemingly infused with a life of their own. No. For some,... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:26:04-05:00

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5 Ways That The Church Is Really All About The “Yes”

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:26 am By Tom Zampino

Ours has become a culture of yes. One that trusts first and last in the individual instinct, however base, without regard to what was once considered objective truth. This is “my truth,” as a former New Jersey governor once pronounced upon his resignation. It is a yes to the self. It is a yes to the physical, to the material, and to all things visible. It’s no wonder that we have looked over all that we have transformed our selves and our culture into and have,... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:30:34-05:00

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A catholic Mass For Peace

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:30 am By Tom Zampino

The Nicene Creed each week reminds us that when we invoke our Catholic (n.) faith, we declare unity with the church in its all-embracing oneness – our catholic (adj.) existence. As Father Robert Barron has made clear on occasion, the word catholic, traced back from the Greek, means something along the lines of “according to the whole.” Another translation would be closer to “throughout the whole.” Although the word catholic is often used today to denote a church which is universal, there is some authority for the... Read more

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2015-04-12T18:04:42-05:00

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Favor and Knowledge Still Test Our Faith: 10 Biblical Examples

Last updated on: April 12, 2015 at 6:04 pm By Tom Zampino

It may be difficult for us, sometimes, to realistically imagine life beyond our own everyday existence. We might, for example, tend to look back at what we call biblical times with no small amount of longing as we wonder just how much easier our faith would have been back then. After all, if we had been present during the days of Abraham, Moses, Christ, or the Apostles, we might have witnessed innumerable and extraordinary events that would have more easily inclined our hearts upwards. At... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:35:59-05:00

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Tsarnaev: The Death Penalty (Somewhat) Revisited

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:35 am By Tom Zampino

In light of the recent Boston Bomber verdicts and the now looming penalty phase, the death penalty once again takes center stage. Here is what Boston’s four Bishops recently said about this case: The defendant in this case has been neutralized and will never again have the ability to cause harm . . . [b]ecause of this, we, the Catholic Bishops of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, believe that society can do better than the death penalty. More: The four bishops quoted... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:38:25-05:00

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My Three Post-Lenten Questions

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:38 am By Tom Zampino

I’m sitting, at this very moment, in a hospital waiting room in Pennsylvania while scheduled, but major, surgery is being performed on a loved one. No matter how routine – and this one is relatively so – the sights, the sounds, and the smells all around me remind me that this is no ordinary place, and that this is no ordinary day. For this is a place of pain. It’s a place of vulnerability. It’s a place of uncertainty and... Read more

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2016-03-27T05:52:51-05:00

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Surrexit Dominus Vere, alleluia!

Last updated on: March 27, 2016 at 5:52 am By Tom Zampino

He is risen, indeed! Have a blessed, transforming Easter! Here is Bishop Barron on the meaning of this day. Peace Read more

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2015-03-29T18:32:50-05:00

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From False Accusers to Recipients of Unmerited Grace

Last updated on: March 29, 2015 at 6:32 pm By Tom Zampino

And so today, as the season of Lent draws to a rapid close, we begin our journey through Holy Week. Yes, our journey. A journey that can successfully transform us from being false accusers to the recipients of unmerited grace – if we know the secret of how to unlock the door. For we are, today: The treacherous Judas Iscariot who betrayed Him; The impetuous Peter who denied Him three times; The accusatory Council of the Sanhedrin, which falsely convicted,... Read more

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2015-06-03T10:39:36-05:00

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A Lenten Christmas Story

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 10:39 am By Tom Zampino

Those of us of a certain age will immediately recognize the unique, soft yet powerful, voice of broadcaster Paul Harvey. He was truly one-of-a-kind. A gifted storyteller, spanning decades, who could weave colorful, vivid images. Often left transfixed, we’d find ourselves grabbed by his hand as he led us through to the other side, to the “rest of the story.” A five minute exploration of our world. A deep reflection of our lives. I heard this story for the first... Read more

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