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One of my greatest adolescent loves was the late-Victorian horror story. Some might break in here to say not all late-Victorian horror was trash (there’s even a...
Today's Reading: Matthew 19:1-30
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Today's Reading: Matthew 15: 29-39
A few years ago, when I worked at the Archdiocese of Chicago, I saw a little girl standing on a street corner, selling cho...
Today's Reading: Matthew 15:1-28
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One of my favorite hobbies is people watching. Or, as an honest person might call it, eavesdropping. You might not know this, but Harvard dining halls are the p...
In early December, the Catholic Herald ran an article in response to one of the Pope’s statements to the Pontifical Academies entitled “Papa Franciscu...
As my mother puts it, I have been “best friends” with Winnie-the-Pooh for as long as I have been alive. On my third day of life, was brought home from the hospi...
Today’s Advent Reading:
USCCB — December 18th
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Perhaps it is unsurprising that Augustine didn’t believe in ghosts. (That is, he didn’t believe in ghosts tha...
