The Good Word
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In two recent articles in Forbes Magazine, Mr. Jerry Bowyer has taken Pope Francis to task not for his economics as such but for supporting his “lefty” economics (Bowyer’s word not mine) with bad biblical exegesis. His first article (March 13, 2013), IsJorge Bergoglio, The New Pope Francis, A Capitalist?, demonstratesBowyer’s concern with Pope...
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All Saints Day, 1950, was properly joyful in Korea. U.S. Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun celebrated four field Masses that day for the soldiers in the Third Battalion of the Eighth Calvary Regiment. Camped almost on the Chinese boarder, the men believed the war all but won. All Souls is a somber day, and, that year in Korea, it turned cataclysmic as twenty thousand Chinese soldiers entered the war, quickly overwhelming the three thousand Americans posted in the north. So badly outnumbered,...
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In the first installment, I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the “Judases” and “Jameses” in the New Testament. In the second installment, I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Judas/Jude who is the brother of Jacob/...
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No less a theologian than Saint Thomas Aquinas lamented that, when it comes to understanding the Holy Spirit, our problems begin with the name (Summa Theologiae I.36.1) . Think of all things that can be called holy, or how often one might speak of a spirit. Even with the two words conjoined, the mind still searches for an image. As Aquinas noted, to speak of a Father and a Son is to employ terms of relationship that we understand, even if we fail to comprehend fully this...
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In the first installment, I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the “Judases” and “Jameses” in the New Testament. In the second installment, I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Judas/Jude who is the brother of Jacob/...
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As I drive home on the 35E from St. Paul to my home, I am greeted by a huge Billboard from local station My Talk 107.1 which has a picture of Lindsay Lohan and the caption, “The Radio Home of Train Wrecks.” I “know” Lindsay Lohan in a passing way, as I have seen Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, but I suspect the people who made this billboard “know” her as well as I do.
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Here’s a passage to ponder. It’s from My Beloved World (2013), the memoir of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sottomayor. As a young child, she didn’t feel particularly close to her mother, a working nurse, raising two children, while struggling with her husband’s alcoholism. Then one day,
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What do we know of heaven? Jesus. Where is heaven? Jesus. What is heaven like? Jesus. The questions and answers may seem blithe, but they come to the core of the bittersweet mystery we call the Ascension.
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In the first installment, I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the “Judases” and “Jameses” in the New Testament. In the second installment, I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Judas/Jude who is the brother of Jacob/...
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Cell phones, texts, Tweets, emails, uploaded photos and videos, Skype, Facebook pages, and blogs . Communication technology doesn’t only permeate modern life, its melds with our humanity itself. A young person today might not emerge from the womb with a smart phone, but there aren’t many days between diapers and digital. We live now on the web the way our evolutionary forebears once swam in the water.