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Did Our Lord Have a Sense of Humor?

H. L. Duncan February 24, AD2017 10 Comments

This question popped into my head one day. I can’t tell you why, it just did. I saved this question for Father P. because he

united states, flag, patriot, america, land of the free, Memorial Day, Labor Day, second chances

They Have a Right!

H. L. Duncan January 7, AD2017 15 Comments

I am tired of hearing the phrase, they have a right. I hear this said on television, radio, or among people in everyday life about

frustration, anger, confusion, sadness, alone, depression

Oh, Oh, Oh, I Have Dubia!

H. L. Duncan December 12, AD2016 12 Comments

After these many years, I finally can say I have something in common with Arnold Horshack. I feel like I must raise my hand high,

joy, dance, abandon, retreat, attitudes, life

Society is People

H. L. Duncan November 9, AD2016 3 Comments

Especially during these past few intense months of our presidential election, we in America have been shown how much society has turned substantially away from

A Religion of Peace: They Must Define It

H. L. Duncan September 11, AD2016 3 Comments

The death, anguish, and destruction caused by the recent upsurge (measured in decades) in savage violence in the name of Islam has caused us to

relationship, transcendence, growing in the Faith

We Often Follow False Prophets

H. L. Duncan August 11, AD2016 4 Comments

On False Prophets in Politics This election year, more than others, has brought back memories of behaviors reminiscent of my high school years. Young teens,

It Was a Sunday Morning When Rip Went to Sleep

H. L. Duncan July 11, AD2016 1 Comment

I looked around at the people near us. I only noticed the adults. I knew my mother, father, and my mother’s sister, but the others

despair, sadness, mourn, frustration, fear

Why Is My Faith So Fragile?

H. L. Duncan June 13, AD2016 2 Comments

Why do we expect to find truth, goodness, and love, in a Judas before we know that he is a Judas? When we do not

The U.S. Election: No More Big Yawn

H. L. Duncan May 31, AD2016 7 Comments

My usual big yawn during election years has this time around turned to into eager attention. What will the orange-haired rich guy with the personality of

Amoris Laetitia: A Licit Approach, or a Retreat From Doctrine?

H. L. Duncan May 16, AD2016 14 Comments

The first several chapters of the post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family) from Pope Francis show a remarkable understanding of the human

Pope Paul VI and Two-Day-Old T-Shirts

H. L. Duncan April 18, AD2016 19 Comments

During a casual conversation a friend of mine asked me, “How come histocompatibility is not better known among Catholics?” Histo what? I asked. He answered,

Election Year Madness

H. L. Duncan March 13, AD2016 13 Comments

As we in the United States suffer through another national election cycle in this odd year, the antics displayed by those who ask for our

Worldview, the Supreme Court, and the Ten Commandments

H. L. Duncan February 16, AD2016 5 Comments

The subjects we chose during telephone conversations with relatives and friends tend to change over time. If you or they have lived a relatively long

Marriage: The Enigma in the Room

H. L. Duncan September 26, AD2015 1 Comment

We are indeed a peculiar lot. We evolve and change, push and pull, vote then cheer or sulk. Often the powerful just invent some feature

What Is Wrong With Latin?

H. L. Duncan August 18, AD2015 19 Comments

“You know that your grandfather always loved the language of his heritage?” My mother gave me this suggestion as I was wondering out loud which foreign

hymn, church music, chant, evangelization, Jazz

What Has Happened to Sacred Catholic Music?

H. L. Duncan July 20, AD2015 57 Comments

“…we shall lose a large portion of that wonderful and incomparable, artistic and spiritual reality, Gregorian chant. We indeed have reason for sadness and perhaps

creation, creator, creature, genesis, being

Gay “Marriage”: Autonomy, Yes! God, No!

H. L. Duncan July 1, AD2015 30 Comments

First, a little background. When we look back to our country’s founding, we take pride in the reasons for its formation; a “bad king” and

Naked City: Appreciating Human Stories

H. L. Duncan June 22, AD2015 3 Comments

Stories of the human experience can be on a gigantic scale encompassing large populations. They can be about great dramas of the past or heartbreaking

I Complain, Therefore I Am

H. L. Duncan May 25, AD2015 30 Comments

The popular atheist blogger, Hemant Mehta, ponders change with the question, “What happens when atheists are no longer a minority?” He mentions the human need