Pope Francis has affirmed the Immaculate Conception many times but one line he said was misinterpreted to argue the opposite. I respond with my regular clarity. It’s crazy what gets spread online today. One website was posting that Pope Francis […]
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Stephen Hawking: Only the Christian View of God Makes Sense
Although Stephen Hawking is an atheist. His attack on God would seem to exclude almost every conception of God but not exclude the Christian God. I wrote about this: There are many different views of God. Hawking tries to argue […]
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Making a Mountain out of a Papal Blessing
Here’s an example of people trying to make a huge deal about something that is almost nothing. He gave an orthodox spontaneous blessing over the normal formula. I wrote a bit: Yesterday, Pope Francis was in Palermo. After one of […]
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The Holy Father’s “Our Father” Comments in Context
I just wrote on the “Our Father” controversy over on Catholic Stand. On the evening of December 6th, TV2000, the Italian equivalent of EWTN, aired an interview of Pope Francis where he criticized the Italian translation of the Our Father. He pointed […]
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Traditional or Progressive, Conservative or Liberal Are Misleading Regarding Religions
After hearing foreign terms for religious life many times, I finally wrote my thoughts into an article. Isn’t it time to stop labeling religious communities with alien terms? I always wonder what commentators mean when they say a religious community […]
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Silence: A challenging but valuable discipline
I wrote a spiritual reflection on silence for Aleteia: Not long ago, I did an eight-day silent retreat. In my community we do this every year. Afterward I Tweeted out a short summary: “So often in prayer what really matters is […]
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Applying Six Offline Models to Online Evangelization
I wrote an article on evangelizing online on Homiletic & Pastoral Review about how to evangelize online. The Internet has now opened up as a wide field for our evangelization. Much of the cultural interchange now takes place via such electronic […]
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How can we as Church do better on suicide?
I wrote a few ideas on how we can better deal with suicide earlier this week. We might think we’re among the compassionate ones. But are we really? I was speaking recently to a young woman whose friend had taken […]
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Müller’s defense of ‘Amoris Laeitia’ reads it in Church tradition
Card. Müller came out strongly in support of reading Amoris Laetitia last week so I summarized it and commented. On Thursday of last week, Cardinal Gerhard Müller continued his defense of an orthodox reading of Amoris Laeitia in the most forceful […]
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