Category: Suffering
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There But for the Grace of God…Go I
If this is how we treat vulnerable humanity—if this is the best we can do—then the failure isn’t theirs. It’s ours. And it is way past time to say so out loud and do something that solves this growing social problem.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer challenged the hypocritical political world in a vicious life-or-death tournament, winning against Satan with a Catholic conversion endgame.
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Terrors of the Night
While trying to fall asleep, she hears the heavy thud of exploding bombs. As the planes fly closer, there’s a flash of light, then the house shudders and trembles. Glass pendants on the nightstand lamp clink and tinkle. She pulls the quilted covers over her head to hide from fear, and trembles until her mother…
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Suffering or Soma
“Christianity without tears”Do our local churches preach this? Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle.
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My Ticket to Heaven
I pondered its unworldly message, encouraging the terminally ill to avoid treatment, to welcome an early death so as not to threaten entry into heaven by lingering here on Earth. Catholic philosophy can certainly seem radical and irrational.
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 