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A Parable for Today, or Always Do Thy Duty
“All this Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable.”
Some time ago an American missionary priest—we’ll call him Father Jim—was sent to a village in Nicaragua....
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Christ is Risen! The Resurrection as the Foundation of our Faith
The fifty days between Easter and Pentecost are devoted to meditation on the mystery of the resurrection, which is the foundation of Christianity. Just how much that is so came home to me when...
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The Expurgated Bible
Do youngsters still read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? I recall gobbling them up when I was a lad. There is one that I wish to call to your attention: It’s a story about...
Nota in Brevis
Father Callam ‘Goes to the Movies’
There’s one thing about movies that I very much like: it’s the one art form that everyone feels himself qualified to comment on. Take me, for instance. I know next to nothing about making...
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Argumentative Starting Points
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will...
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Ritual and Boredom
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find it boring. It’s the one statement that cannot be argued...
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Argumentative Starting Points
Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The behaviour of someone whose decisions come from such love will...
