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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Jesus and the Little Children
A passage from today's gospel struck me in a fresh and astonishing way today. It's the final few verses in which Jesus emphasizes his identity as the lowliest one by embracing a child. “If [...]
Was Matthew the First Gospel?
Today, on the Feast of St Matthew the Apostle it is worth taking a look at the "Synoptic Problem". This discussion among Biblical scholars concerns the authorship, development and dating of the first three [...]
Finding Peace of Mind in Troubled Times
If you're like me you look at the news today and remembering the events of the last five years, you wonder what next? Wars and rumors of wars, race riots, political instability, a pandemic, [...]
A Glimpse of Transfiguration at Mass
The Feast of the Transfiguration is all about seeing things as they really are. Some time ago as I was saying Mass it seemed to me that there was, beneath the altar, another whole [...]
The Rise of the Post-Christian CryBaby Bully
With the rise of Christianity a new perspective entered human history: the triumph of the victim. Previously if you were a slave, if you were poor, if you were disabled, if you were strange, [...]
The Problem of Protestant Anti-Catholicism
I think it was Fulton Sheen who said something like "There are not a hundred Americans who hate Catholics, but there are thousands of Americans who hate what they think the Catholic Church is." [...]
