Here we are, the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time on cycle C of the Lectionary. Luke 16:1-13 is the Gospel. You know, the one about the “dishonest steward” who was getting fired for squandering his master’s goods. Here is my old take on this marvelous parable. The dishonest steward – right before his was “canned” …
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I used this text as follows to do a very short introduction and tour of the 150 Psalms in a parish presentation. A more readable PDF version was posted HERE on the St. John Vianney Parish website. Psalms copied from World English Bible with Deuterocanon( https://ebible.org/eng-web/)All in the public domain.All symbols visible within the text indicate …
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The Catholic Church has an extensive set of teachings about love, and marriage, and sexuality. These teachings are quite articulate. But again, they are vast because they are “extensive.” So, the summaries and impressions often shared about these teachings can easily go astray from what are our religious beliefs, or moral principles, really are in …
For many reasons I have wanted to start a discussion about Humanae Vitae. That 1968 document from Pope Paul VI, to me, gets at the core of everything that has gone wrong with sexual mores – rather sexual immorality, sexual confusion, and now 21st century sexual Gnosticism – in the past 60 years. What follows …
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