Education. Arts. Charity.
(And the greatest of these is charity).
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Scars Are Your Origin Story
Guest post by J. M. M. Wahl This article is intended largely as a review for the newly released movie, Furiosa. This movie was a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, which was released several years ago. There may be some spoilers in this article, although some of them relate to the film Fury Road,…
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My Thoughts on the Near-Assassination of Donald Trump
by Brett Manero. A shocking event occurred on July 13, 2024, during a political rally in Pennsylvania. Former President – and current Republican candidate – Donald Trump was nearly assassinated while speaking to his supporters. From what I have read, Trump escaped certain death by merely centimeters, as at least one bullet struck the top…
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Reflecting on a Eucharistic Pilgrimage Through Denver
“Viva Jesuscristo! Viva Maria!” I hadn’t expected to be walking in that hot June sun with 5,000 other Catholics through downtown Denver. The decision to take part was last minute. A brief mention in a bulletin printed by my suburban church alerted me. One of the routes of the two-month National Eucharistic Pilgrimage was coming…
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Heresy, Puritans, and the Occult
A guest post by J.M.M. Wahl. I once knew a doctor who, in his mid-50’s, was at the height of his career. He was nationally acclaimed, and in his particular field of practice, was a highly besought physician in the state of Colorado. He was also a faithful and devout Catholic. It so happened that…
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80 Years Since the Normandy Invasions
by Brett Manero. Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, occurred eight decades ago on June 6, 1944 AD. It is truly amazing that numerous survivors of the Normandy landings are still with us in 2024 AD. Eighty years later, they represent the last of the Greatest Generation, a generation which, as my father told me…
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
By Katie Purple “Holy Spirit, who are You?” I’ve found myself asking this question a lot lately, desiring a very simple answer to all the complexities of life, and as I stare out at the breeze gently teasing the tree branches on this Pentecost Sunday afternoon, I am reminded of the number of times that…
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Unexpected Love
A guest post by Theo Hafner-Evangelisti. “Can you help me out, sir? Can you spare some change?”Last summer I attended a conference on 8th Street, in southeast Washington, DC. Afterwards, as I was returning to my car in the sweltering noon day heat, I came upon a woman panhandling for money in front of a…
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Meditations on Forgiveness
This is a guest post by J. M. M. Wahl. While this article may, at times, come across as largely theoretical and abstract, when I wrote it, the issue had never felt more fresh and relevant, as I had been struggling with the idea of forgiveness for some months, and just in the last week…
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Spring Reflections, Part II
I wrote in a previous post about my deep appreciation of the arrival of spring. All around us, signs of Resurrection are near: the warmer air, the budding leaves, and as I likewise noted, the significant drop in cynicism that we tend to see at the beginning of the spring season. And yet, for anyone…
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The Church as the Third Temple, Part I
“Salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22). Jesus Christ makes this truth clear in the Gospel of John, as He famously converses with the Samaritan woman at the well. Like much of John’s Gospel, there are scenes contained in the Fourth Gospel that are not present in the three Synoptics, this scene being one of…
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