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“All God’s Children Go to Heaven”Derek and the Jar Baby
But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.” Luke 18:16 A Different Child of God Derek was different. We called...
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Why Isn’t Being Catholic a Habit?
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 Introduction—Duhigg’s Book about Habits As part of an alumni book club at my alma mater,...
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Educated by Nuns: the Way it Was, the Way it Should be Now
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. —Bharati Mukherjee...
View ArticleJesus’s Healing Miracles: Diminished by Modern Medicine?
Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to...
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The Missing Cross
But all things should be done decently and in order. ———Corinthians 14:40 Waiting Out the Flood God really does work in strange ways. I had been...
View ArticlePius XII was NOT “Hitler’s Pope;” The Nazi Persecution of the Church
“Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God…” —1 Cor 10:32 OPENING PIUS XII’s SECRET ARCHIVES Pope Francis has announced the opening of the Pope Pius XII secret archival materials,...
View ArticleLiving Longer with God
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.—Corinthians 15:53 Noah’s Living Longer Story Imagine a hip, a knee or any other joint that lasts a...
View ArticleAl Capone’s Catholicism: The Worker in the Vineyard
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” —John 10:10 When Al Capone died in January of 1947 United Press International, in true...
View ArticleGeneral Patton and God:Blood and Guts’ Prayer
You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms (Jeremiah 51:20). ABOUT GENERAL GEORGE PATTON George S. Patton was one of America’s most famous and...
View ArticleThe Cinderella Man’s Left Hook:Jim Braddock’s Catholic Story
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, “Do not fear; I will help you”—Isaiah 41:13 BRADDOCK, THE “CINDERELLA MAN” In 1935 James Braddock won the world’s...
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Falling from Grace: Hitler’s Catholic Henchmen
Yet I planted you a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?—Jeremiah 2:21 There are Catholics. There are...
View ArticleReligion, Keeping up with the Times:The Morphing of St. Appolonia
IS ORGANIZED RELIGION OUT OF DATE? According to the well-known actor Bruce Willis, modern religion is out of date: …religion is the end trail of modern mythology…organized religions…were important when...
View ArticleAnarchists and Heroes at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not overcome it.—Matthew 16:18 ANARCHISTS TRY TO BOMB ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL On Tuesday, March 2, 1915 Frank Abarno was surprised when a...
View ArticleSt. Florian, the Firefighter, and The Firefighters’ Cross
Greater Love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13 CALIFORNIA FIRES AND THE FIREFIGHTERS’ CROSS As we near the end of the 2019 California fire season, it’s...
View ArticleBabe Ruth’s Catholic Long Home Run
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.—Timothy 2:5 BABE RUTH’S MEMORIAL, ST. MARY’S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR DEPENDENT BOYS In 1921 Xaverian Brother Paul told a dying...
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Jesus, Wine and the Temperance Movement
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.—Ecclesiastes 9:7 (KJV) THE RISE OF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT Here’s a good lesson in political...
View ArticleAmazing Grace: The Hymn of a Repentant Slaver
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”—Luke 5:32 JOHN NEWTON, AUTHOR OF “AMAZING GRACE” Amazing Grace is one of the most popular Christian songs of all time. Its haunting lyrics...
View ArticleAl Capone’s Catholicism: The Worker in the Vineyard
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly” —John 10:10 When Al Capone died in January of 1947 United Press International, in true...
View ArticleGeneral Patton and God:Blood and Guts’ Prayer
You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms (Jeremiah 51:20). ABOUT GENERAL GEORGE PATTON George S. Patton was one of America’s most famous and...
View ArticleThe Cinderella Man’s Left Hook:Jim Braddock’s Catholic Story
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, “Do not fear; I will help you”—Isaiah 41:13 BRADDOCK, THE “CINDERELLA MAN” In 1935 James Braddock won the world’s...
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