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Grainy because it was taken with my phone, but it was one of those images that I wanted to capture even if inadequately. I tried cropping the palm tree out of the upper right corner but that took away too much of the sky. This is St. Joseph's at Spring Hill College, by the way.
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Presumably her heart's in the right place, and maybe she gets an A in holiness, but: "I'm thinking of how Jesus died on the cross and how he gave up all his sins for us." Probably she just mis-spoke, but it's funny.
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Sunday Night Journal — October 2, 2011 There is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in—Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” For those outside traditional Christianity, the whole Catholic (and Orthodox) emphasis on the Eucharist is weird, to say the least. Even setting aside the strangeness of the doctrine that the consecrated bread and wine become…
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Field-goal kicker and…homecoming queen.
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There is a difficult situation going on in my family. Since this blog is open to the whole wide world, I won't be more specific. But I ask your prayers for a good resolution. Thank you.
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Weekend Music A couple of Sundays ago I went to a concert by the Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas. The first piece was the Prelude No. 1 of Heitor Villa-Lobos. I'm hoping that most people who read this blog are not overly familiar with it. It's so widely played that I suspect classical guitar fans…
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In a letter to his cousin Louis Kergorlay dated June 29, 1831, Tocqueville goes so far as to say that there are no real "beliefs"–ancient mores, settled traditions, deep-rooted memories–in America, except for the belief in the self-evident rightness of republican government and the truth of human perfectibility. –from a review of a collection of Tocqueville's…
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We despise everything that Christ loves, everything marked by His compassion. We love fatness health bursting smiles the radiance of satisfied bodies all properly fed and rested and sated and washed and perfumed and sexually relieved. Everything else is a scandal and a horror to us. That's Merton in a 1960 letter to Dorothy Day,…
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A beautiful gallery of photographs for this week's Hearts of Space program.
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Sunday Night Journal — September 25, 2011 Two Executions If you paid any attention at all to news in (or from, as the case may be) the U.S. for the past week or so, you know that the state of Georgia executed a man named Troy Davis for the 1989 killing of a police officer.…
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