vacations

A Theology of Vacations

Many people taking vacations leave hearth and home for other locales.  But my recent vacation took me home. I recently returned to the parish I

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Island, trust, grace, friends

Kidney Donors Wanted

The Kidney-Donation Process About three years ago, my brother-in-law began dialysis. One kidney did not function at all and the other had only ten-percent functionality.

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almsgiving

USCCB: Don’t Praise PEPFAR!

According to a recent OSV news article, the USCCB backs the efforts of PEPFAR. As you might expect, the USCCB’s relief and development agency, Catholic

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Happiness, prayer, prayers, faith

Overcoming a Hypokinetic Faith

Because of a past professional career in exercise science and physical fitness, I like to make analogies from the physical domain to the spiritual domain

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crucifix, jesus, seder, sacrifice, triduum

Do The Hard Thing

“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” ~Victor Frankl (neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, Holocaust survivor) Wim Hof, colloquially known as

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free will, agency

Letting Go of Our Hang-Ups

Ages ago, I used to think the word “hang-ups” referred only to a person’s petty insecurities, say, a manager’s being annoyed by a subordinate’s brilliance

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death, memento mori, God

Death Called While You Were Out

I got reminded two months ago that Death is coming for me. The cardiologist, who had incidentally diagnosed my late mother’s atrial fibrillation, told me

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Christians, commandments

Catholic Social Teaching

In his 11/1/22 article, I was delighted that Father Nathaniel Dryer spoke of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.  As per my

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Jesus's healing miracles

Mercy and Everyday Healing

Over the past 40+ years, I have learned that God’s love and mercy is beyond anything we can comprehend or grasp.  It is Catholic teaching

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Easter, Lent

Better Than The Real Thing?

Perhaps in retrospect, one of the most prescient films of the new millennium is Surrogates.  The premise of this 2009 science fiction thriller, starring Bruce

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race, bias, critical race theory, Liberation Theology

Wonderful Words in the Workplace

Did you know that work in the “corporate jungle” could be a lot less overwhelming, stressful, or boring if only people would start remembering and

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