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State Power is Neither Holy Nor Angelic

On news that the FBI has not only been spying on and infiltrating Catholic parishes, but lying about it: When I studied to be a priest/religious as a Dominican, we were assigned to read through the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers; many of the notions and clauses date back all the way to the…
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Nature–She Is a Sparing Partner at Best

Superstition abounds. You see it all around you in this hysterical age of fear. The person, alone in their car, wearing a soiled, supposed-to-be-disposable mask. Another, feverishly wiping down furniture. So many others believing in every media narrative designed to provoke sheepish, irrational fear. __________ It emerges from a denial of death, or more precisely,…
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Theology on Tap: Who Is Your Angel and What Does He Do?

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The Anti-Graduation Speech

       Since we are, due to our shared human nature, of equal dignity in the eyes of God, each one of us loved into existence and life of exponentially greater worth than the most brilliant star and—for that matter, the entire inanimate universe itself—I refrain today from the expected and altogether banal greetings…
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