By the time he had gotten to Philadelphia and presided over the smarmy testimonials and declarations by the likes of Mark Wahlberg and a variety of anonymous Catholic couples, I…
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Ignem Mittere in Terram Like a rock (of ages) star, Pope Francis landed Washington today to rave previews. No question, this pope has charisma to spare after the last…
Whew! I actually wrote that. Where was the bolt of lightening? Actually, the great avenging deity might have understood that I wasn’t calling down his omnipotent wrath upon my country,…
.President Obama got some great reviews for his eulogy for the Black victims of the Charleston massacre a couple of days ago. Segments went, as the saying goes these days,…
We have all seen the unfortunate person on street corner babbling incomprehensibly (to us) to some invisible imagined being. And we have all seen people praying before (and to) statues…
[Slightly revised No. 23.3] The day after Halloween, in the Roman Catholic Church, is “All Saints Day.” This is a good day to pray to the patron saint for bellyaches…
[No. 44. 7: Revised and Expanded] Recently, my cousin sent to me a link to a website that had been sent to her by a friend who, in recommending it’s…
In just a little over two years we will be choosing a new president and, since this is America, we have already begun the campaign process. I am not announcing…
Watching Hamas and the IDF go at it in the land that is called “holy” by both sides, but would more aptly be called The Bloody Land, has a tedious…
“Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion, Pascal Boyer explains, because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith.” Boyer is the author of “Being human: Religion:…