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I find great energy in the Acts of the Apostles. This account written to “Theophilus” (a lover of God) is the root of my reassuring my faith...

The equation does not balance. Or it does not always balance for me. The consensus on the writing of the four gospels goes something like th...

I make this observation. I remember in my youth of some thirty to forty odd years ago when you could not get any Jewish people to even menti...

From a journal – May 2003 ...Rushing to my express bus on Fifth Avenue I glanced up the steps into an unused entrance to Saint Thomas Ep...

With a global war of perceptions of what the human race is about, what it believes and how it goes forward into the future are great macros ...

Some strange guy once waved to me in a nearly empty parking lot at the Mall in Arizona. Hey I do go to the mall sometimes. I did not know...

One learns with a newborn baby that it does not come with an instruction book. Some things you learn on your own. Some things are common sen...

Old time religion was about a cohesive social unit. It was not particularly political. The rural past of America and going back to the midd...

Along the road of life one gets a taste for the things that are of interest to oneself. My senses pick up when I see a good anthropology or...

I have met and know of some remarkable men in my life. Since it is Friday and tonight at sundown marks the start of the traditional Jewish ...

Let me take a break from my boring biography and what might seem to some as my trashing of the R.C. church. I am merely telling my backgroun...

When I was in grade school and high school I heard rumors about how a lunatic named Martin Luther got away with many misrepresentations abou...

There is political-ization of religion. There is also religion-ization of politics. I stand back at what looks like an effort to impose a re...

It is politics, politics, politics in this prolonged primary season in America. What ever happened to the good old days of tobacco smoke fil...

The late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once commented on a talk show in response to the seeming chaos and confusion and anger for Catholics in...

Somewhere along the timeline between my being a R.C. Christian and a Cultural Christian is the great Church council of Vatican II. I was awa...

I don’t remember the exact moment how or when religion got introduced into my life. I was aware of my older brother and sister going to Mas...

There is that standard term ”the sacred and the profane”. Sacred of course means the church. Everything else is the profane. The term is ...

Cafeteria Catholics - Free - All You Can Eat - The Grace of God I have spent many, many years in the pursuit of what might be called ...