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7 Suggestions for Becoming More Childlike…
All of these happy memories came flooding back as I listened to this curious old commercial — memories of a time of wonder and awe. But by the end of the commercial, more than anything else, I felt shame. The Davises live in a small apartment on a busy road. In the summer, we can’t sleep with the windows open for all the pickup trucks and motorcycles. The back yard was entirely paved over to make a parking lot. When my wife and I got married in 2019, we expected to put a down payment on a house in a year or two. Then COVID happened, and the economy took a nosedive. Now it seems like we have two options: leave New England (including all our family and friends) or rent until we’re in our forties. I was brokenhearted — not for myself, but for my daughters.&...
Wise men listen when hypocrites speak. We’re all at least slightly hypocritical , but Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies…..
Skip to content We are not perfectly transformed in our minds. We are still slightly hypocritical. But Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies. Knowing our weakness, we can be gentle with others and reverent toward God, who knows our weakness and yet loves and uses us for his purposes even as he is healing us. “I have a question,” my student said ominously as he sat in the chair in my office. I braced internally and probably externally—my heart is worn on my whole demeanor. When he asked it, I was relieved: “How can I be a theology major and keep sinning?” You can’t go for long in Christian life without discovering what St. John Henry Newman meant when he said, “To know is one thing, to do is another; the two things are altogether distinct.” Knowing that something is a sin to be avoi...
Priest Plunges School Into Darkness to Save Children From Marauding Gunmen…
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Being a pilgrim is not easy, as Dorothy Day shows…
We once had a pastor who often, almost in every homily, described the Christian life as a “journey.” The word’s a good go-to image for the Christian life, but it’s not the best one. The Christian life isn’t just a journey, though, it’s a particular type of journey. By itself, the image says that you’re moving but not where you’re going and why, or how well you’re getting there. Christianity has a more precise and specific word, a word with rich meaning that illuminates who we are better than “journey.” “Pilgrim” is the better word. As Christians, we live in the world as pilgrims, or should: people who are not at home anywhere, and who are always on the way to a far away city where we’ll settle for good, that we know as home even though we’ve never been there. The New Testament continually ...
Did Egyptian monks pave the way for St. Patrick?
By Phil Lawler ( bio – articles – email ) | May 10, 2024 The book opens like a mystery novel. The year is 2006. An Irish farmer, digging for peat, notices an odd shape in his bucket. Looking carefully, he discovers that it is a very old book. Bringing it to experts, he learns that it is a psalter, more than a thousand years old, written on papyrus, bound in leather. “To find a book made the same way, conservators had to go to the binding of the Nag Haamadi codices in Egypt, fourth-century Gnostic Gospels that had been discovered in 1945.” What was an ancient Egyptian psalter doing in a peat bog in Tipperay? In Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity, Connie Marshner gives a surprising answer: The psalter was brought to Ireland by monks who ha...
Archbishop Fulton Sheen traced abortion and today’s moral chaos to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was right. Here’s why…..
The dropping of the atomic bomb was evil. For the average conservative commentator, this comment automatically causes a knee-jerk reaction with the same old platitudes. For decades, the American Right has been the defender of our usage of the atomic bomb, with either “it saved more American lives” or “it was the lesser of two evils” being some of the strongest candidates. Phyllis Schlafly once declared, in a 1982 New York Times article, that “the atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.” For many years, I would have championed Schlafly’s point, parroting all the appropriate conservative talking points on the subject. I believed that by defending America’s decision, I was somehow being patriotic and defending the nation. I now know I was wrong. ...
Hidden Google Maps Features You Should Know About…
Screenshot: Dua Rashid / Gizmodo Just like wheelchair-accessible routes, Google Maps also shows you fuel-efficient routes. It’s a setting that you’d need to turn on just once, and all your future routes will have a fuel efficiency filter applied to them. Advertisement Head over to Settings on Google Maps, tap Navigation, and scroll down to Prefer fuel-efficient routes. Turn the toggle switch on. Then scroll down to Engine type and pick your engine out of Gas, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid. Google Maps will pick a fuel-efficient route for you based on your engine type. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums
A Museum Employee in Germany Was Fired for Putting Up His Own Art…
Someone in Germany was so confident in their artistic abilities, they went ahead and installed one of their paintings in a museum—without anyone else knowing. A man in Munich is accused of illicitly hanging a painting in the Pinakothek der Moderne, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The 51-year-old was an employee of the museum, and he hung his work on the modern-art floor while assisting in the installation of an exhibit on philanthropy. “He was carrying tools, that’s why he went totally unnoticed,” Tine Nehler, a spokesperson for the museum, told the Times. “As a technician, he was able to move around all areas of the building outside of opening hours.” Little more is known about the man, as the museum declined to share his identity and his artistic background. It did say, however...
In Echoes of Cardinal Pell Media Gag Order, Australian Judge Extends Ban Worldwide on X Sharing Video of Sydney Bishop’s Stabbing…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge on Friday extended a ban on X allowing videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop in his church last month after government lawyers condemned the social media company’s free speech argument for keeping the graphic images circulating. Australian Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett extended his order that X Corp., the company rebranded by billionaire Elon Musk when he bought Twitter last year, block users from sharing videos of the April 15 attack. The attack led to terrorism-related charges for the alleged attacker, a teenager, and triggered a riot outside the church. The order has existed since April 22 and Kennett will decide on Monday whether it will continue in its current form. X is alone among social media platforms in fighting a notic...
No Church, no witness to the world. No Eucharist, no Church. And no priests, no Eucharist…..
The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once described humans as “dependent, rational animals,” arguing in his text that, as creatures, we need the virtues. This makes sense, because none of us is really “independent” or “self-sufficient.” Each of us is imperfect. We need others to complete and support us. They need us for the same reason. In the biblical worldview, this isn’t an accident. It’s a matter of God’s design. The virtues shape us in moral maturity and give us the ability to live fruitfully in community . . . all of which I remembered this past week when I received the following note from a veteran priest friend: Fran,I’ve been reading your thoughts in True Confessions to great profit. One of the book’s underlying themes is that we’ve moved into a time when the energies that enli...
San Antonio Archbishop García-Siller Deletes Social Media Posts About Gaza War, Says He ‘Deeply Regrets … Misunderstanding’ …
“As we pray & are in solidarity with the Palestinians, does not mean antisemitism,” García-Sillar wrote in one of the posts, which as of Thursday remains on his X page. “Peace is the goal. It is insane to try to get Hamas killing thousands of people & leading many people to starvation. That region is part of salvation history. It is hard to see it in an endless war.” Not every conflict needs to end in violence. We pray for the end of the wars around the world, and walk little steps to stop new ones. Too much unnecessary suffering. Very little or no gain. Our work for peace is daily in short encounters and in serious and profound conversations — Archbishop Gustavo (@ABishopGustavo) May 9, 2024 Archdiocesan spokesman Jordan McMorrough told CNA Thursday that García-Sillar “has c...
Jesus Is Always Your Friend…
6th Sunday of EasterBy Fr. Victor Feltes At the Last Supper, Jesus told his apostles, “I have called you friends…” He calls them friends and he does not lie; what Jesus speaks is true. And then he tells them, “You are my friends if you do what I command you.” But what if we, or they, do not do what Christ commands? Does the Lord remain a friend towards us even when we are not being a friend towards him? It appears Judas Iscariot was not at the table with the other apostles when Jesus spoke those words. Sometime after Jesus had kneeled down and washed their feet, Judas went out into the night to arrange for his betrayal. The passages we hear at Mass from St. John’s Gospel today are set two chapters after that. Jesus foresaw that Judas would freely choose to betray him, and God would go on t...
