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Daily Archives: 3 June 2008
Two Arms Not Four
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has crashed the party of astronomical conventional wisdom. It’s long been thought our galaxy has four arms spiraling around the galactic core. Not true, according to the intrepid infrared telescope. Over the past several years, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy
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A Place To Pray In Peace
Main headline at CNS today, Tulsa Bishop Edward J. Slattery has proclaimed a diocesan shrine at a parish in his see city dedicated to Santo Toribio Romo, considered to be an unofficial patron of immigrants. The idea came from a … Continue reading
Posted in Church News, Liturgy, spirituality
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Adoption Disruptions
CNS reports that Catholic adoption services are ending in England, as a result of government insistence that children be placed with same-sex couples. In the Diocese of Lancaster, “the trustees of the adoption agency … voted to cut ties with … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption
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Wedding Lectionary: John 2:1-11
Does this passage make more sense as a treatise on Marriage, or on the Eucharist? Most Scripture scholars dismiss the former, noting that the wedding feast serves as merely the setting for Jesus’ first miracle (or “sign”). On the other … Continue reading
Posted in Rite of Marriage, Scripture
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FIYH 18-19: The Pastoral Preacher
FIYH heads this subsection “PASTORAL ROLE OF THE PREACHER.” Let’s read: [18] Preachers who are conscious of their representative role strive to preach in a way that indicates they know and identify with the people to whom they are speaking. … Continue reading
Posted in Fulfilled in Your Hearing, Liturgy, USCCB documents
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Catholic Sensibility 