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Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Numbers

The most important consideration we should have concerns where our soul will spend eternity. Today’s reading, from Matthew,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for July 24, 2011

Reading 1 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12 The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Stereolithography. Technology Meets Catholic…

It is a routine process in prototyping shops to take a program, download it into a stereolithography machine,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Getting Through the Blizzard

Having a TV, after six months of not having one, makes it impossible not to realize how thoroughly...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Viruses, in the Mind and in the Body Politic

We should consider improper thoughts that come into our consciousness as living, spiritual viruses. They feed upon us,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Catholic Fundamentalism’s Less Than Modest…

The Church is fragmented between traditionalists on one side and modernists on the other. In the middle are...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Fracking

About a mile below the surface of most of the earth, there’s a layer of shale that’s filled...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Litanies From the Liturgy of the Lost

(There are two types of thinking. The first leads us closer to God. The second does not. It...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Ne’er Do Well Relatives

Many of us know, or are related to, people who never do well. A recent, local murder is...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The Escape From Egypt Prefigures Our Own Escape…

Just as the Tribes of Israel were delivered from government oppression, so are we who believe. Jesus, the...