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Second Sunday of Ordinary Time: There was a Wedding in Cana
A homily for the second Sunday. A beautiful triplet of readings. I really like the reading from Paul, but I could not really see how to work it in with the other two. Writing this was partly...
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Are you Working to Fulfill Scripture?
Very, very late, for which I apologize. Things got out of hand over the weekend and then at work. But I am determined to do this! The first and third readings again are closely linked, at least for...
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: What Are You Expecting?
Late again. However, guilt is a marvelous motivator, so Saturday morning I am typing this while waiting for the walls to dry before I paint my office. The idea has been with me all week, but somehow...
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Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time: I am a Sinful Man
Late again. REALLY late. I actually had the main idea worked out two weeks ago Sunday, and I started writing it last week. But somehow things got away from me. In any event, The theme struck me...
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First Sunday of Lent: If You are a Christian….
Still late, but I am determined to see this through. This reflection was actually very useful for me as I thought about a reading I essentially hear every year but somehow stopped listening to. And,...
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I Can’t Resist
I’m sorry, but I really cannot resist posting this very Catholic joke today. “If scripture will not cast out the Devil, use laughter. For Satan cannot bear to be mocked.” (Martin Luther) A blessed...
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It has been a while
It has been a while since I posted, and I suspect some of you think that I had abandoned the blog. This is true, but not in the way you think. Something went awry back in March, and I have in fact...
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A response to my post on Trump
Many months ago, almost but not quite getting ahead of the curve, I had a post in which I argued that Catholics should not vote for Trump. After comments closed, I received an email from R.S. who...
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Favorite Patron Saints
As I was catching up on my administrative backlog, I came across an interesting contribution: an infographic depicting a handful of saints who are, shall we say, patron saints of some pretty odd...
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Going Home, Going Into Exile
A great pleasure of moving to Tuscaloosa has been the discovery of a small but thriving Mexican-American community. Latinos (primarily Mexican-Americans but also some Guatemalans and El Salvadorans)...
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How to Respond to a Conspiracy Theory
This is post I thought about a few months ago, but am finally find the will (“ganas” in Spanish) to write. Last May, the Catholic paper of the Diocese of Birmingham, One Voice, published a guest...
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Is It Worse Now?
At mass this morning, one of our deacons preached. In the middle of a somewhat disjointed sermon, following a thinly veiled attack on the Democrats (he named no names but castigated one party platform...
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An old example of liberal Protestant anti-Catholicism
When my Mom died a couple years ago, as we were sorting out her stuff to give to charity, I went through her boxes of books and pulled out some for my own library. My mother was a great reader, and...
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On leaving my parish
This post is sort of related to the recent post on Trump’s election, but it is much more personal. Let me start with a story. About forty-five years ago, when I was six or seven, my family quit our...
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On married priests
At least since Vatican II there has been discussion about married clergy in the Western Church, with many people advocating for it to address the vocations crisis, and with equal numbers arguing in...
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#IamaStranger
This is not a long post. This is not a critically reasoned post. Rather, it is an attempt to explain, partly to myself, why I have decided participate in a bit of Facebook activism. I don’t usually...
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Many months ago, almost but not quite getting ahead of the curve, I had a post in which I argued that Catholics should not vote for Trump. After comments closed, I received an email from R.S. who...
View ArticleFavorite Patron Saints
As I was catching up on my administrative backlog, I came across an interesting contribution: an infographic depicting a handful of saints who are, shall we say, patron saints of some pretty odd...
View ArticleGoing Home, Going Into Exile
A great pleasure of moving to Tuscaloosa has been the discovery of a small but thriving Mexican-American community. Latinos (primarily Mexican-Americans but also some Guatemalans and El Salvadorans)...
View ArticleHow to Respond to a Conspiracy Theory
This is post I thought about a few months ago, but am finally find the will (“ganas” in Spanish) to write. Last May, the Catholic paper of the Diocese of Birmingham, One Voice, published a guest...
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