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Beginning a Journey

Dean Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels said that we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love

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The Cream Filling Society

Today, we can get anything we want immediately in many cases.  We have millions of different sounds for incoming calls, and the grocery store has

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Love Bugs

With Karen gone, I no longer want to be here. It has been a year since she died in the hospital from a combination of

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Loving Our Priests

It’s very easy to like priests who are charismatic personalities and knock-out preachers. It’s easy to appreciate those who have great PR skills, those who

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Where two or three are gathered, Jesus, disciples

When You Let Him In

The Gospel of the 3rd Week of Easter Sunday (Year C) presents a situation where the apostles (in particular, Peter), seem to be going through

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