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Wed 9 Jun, 2010

Are We Missing God’s Plan for Our Adulthood?

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What is the difference between the carefree innocence of childhood and the joy that God wants us to have in adulthood? It all has to do with how we deal with the reality of evil in our lives. God does not desire us to remain children, nor to mature into gloomy cusses. He wants the carefree innocence of childhood to mature into something more substantial. Continue reading

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Mon 12 Jan, 2009

Hearts for Sale!

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Bill Steigerwald is urging Barak Obama to legalize the international sale of human organs. In his arguments, he claims that medical ethicists live in ivory towers, out of touch with real-world suffering. The reality is that utilitarians who devalue transcendent goods and embrace only tangible goods live in a fantasy world and ignore the devastation that their derision of human dignity brings to our culture. Continue reading

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Wed 1 Oct, 2008

Cheaters Never Prosper

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Ok, “cheaters never prosper” is a cliche. But so is “every law was meant to be broken,” yet we hear this saying much more often – in word or idea. Our country is currently suffering from the greedy cheating of people associated with the Annie Mae and Freddie Mac companies. In 2002 we heard about a number of scholars who had plagiarized or otherwise misrepresented themselves and their scholarly work… Continue reading

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Fri 19 Sep, 2008

Enjoying the Gift but Loving the Giver More

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In our diocesan parenting program, “Teaching the Way of Love,” one of the points we make is that we need to teach our children how to receive love well in addition to teaching them how to give love. I tell the story of Christmas at my parents’ home and at the home of my in-laws.

At my wife’s family’s Christmas celebration the kids are turned loose at a designated… Continue reading

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Thu 11 Sep, 2008

What America Needs is a Good Clown

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I just listened to Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s program, “The Clown is Always Right” (an episode of Life is Worth Living). Archbishop Sheen proposes that clowns hold within their characters the ideal balance of seriousness and humor. He then describes in modern culture the division of classes, some of which take the world too seriously and have no humor and others how live only to enjoy life and take nothing seriously… Continue reading

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