Your Faith
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Superheroes? Stardust? Or vessels of the Incarnation?
When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High...
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Domesticating the divinity
Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...
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It’s a culture war, stupid
Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the...
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My Walk with St. Padre Pio
God used St. Padre Pio to rescue me. Shortly after I turned 18, I drifted away from my Catholic faith. It was...
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Stay Calm
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “Most of us reflect our surroundings. However, men (and women) with quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened;...
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1.6KVenerating a most valuable player
Saint Padre Pio Relics to be presented in La Crosse. One of this year’s greatest sources of sports stories was Super Bowl...
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The “Expendable Children”
Couples who struggle to get pregnant are turning with greater frequency to the in vitro fertilization (IVF) industry for assistance. In some...
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Questions of competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...
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Are jihadis “losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian president...
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Fifty years of friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott...