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Beyond the Pale

When Roman legions marched into new lands, each soldier carried a wooden stake. At night, those stakes were...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

The Roman Catholic Church as Operating System

In our time, we have the advantage of seeing that different computers have different operating systems. Some work...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for June 5, 2011

Seventh Sunday of Easter Reading 1 Acts 1:12-14 After Jesus had been taken up to heaven the apostles...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Tapeworms and Body Politics

The phrase “body politic” indicates the similarity of a governmental organization to a human body. A “body politic”...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Vanity Fair

Bunyan’s book, Pilgrim’s Progress, makes it clear that all those who will be saved must bypass Vanity Fair,...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

War Against the Good, the True, the Loving, the…

Free societies, as the United States between the Revolution and WWI, understand that their prosperity comes from a...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Love Those Frauds?

Most of that with which we are regaled on a daily basis is some sort of fraud that...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for June 2, 2011 – Solemnity of the…

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Reading 1 Acts 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Pascal’s Wager and Catholic Fundamentalism

Catholic Fundamentalism is the first new approach to The Roman Catholic Church since Pascal developed Probability Theory and...

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Reading for May 29, 2011

Sixth Sunday of Easter Reading 1 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and...