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One of the most deadly tendencies of pastors, teachers, and parents must be the denial of sin and the consequences of sin. The false ideol...

Down to low 40s and no heat as I cannot afford to run it for long.... The flat is too drafty and the heat goes away as soon as the monster...

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What happened to the good, old Blighty spirit? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888716/Retreating-Queen-s-Guard-End-era-palace-sen...

The banner headline in today's Times of Malta is this: "Church doesn't have to take a central role." This was said by...

Before STS left, he treated me as part of my Christmas pressie ( a book, other part, of course), and birthday pressie, to the best restaur...

Holy communities with real saints for abbots or prioresses or whoever, would make for excellent followers. The same is true for families. ...

Thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas today, and Becket, and many of the great leaders of our Church who have been canonized, it dawned on me how h...

In today's reading from the Divine Office, St. Bernard writes of the kindness of God, referring back to St. Paul's note, that kind...

Quite a while ago, a priest told me that when we experience a victory over evil in our lives, or in the lives of someone for whom we are ...

A very smart person told me that St. Luke's emphasis of Christ reaching out to the Gentiles, women, and the outcasts, such as the she...

We all have what we can call the a nnus horribilis, the worst year, or one of the worst years of our lives. Perhaps it was the year one lo...

Dear Readers, please pray for me as for the past week I have been suffering with increased painful tendinitis in my left foot and leg, and ...

Tomorrow is the feast day of Thomas a Becket. Those of us in the modern world do not appreciate that his shrine was one of the largest an...

I have been observing families all over America and in some countries of Europe over the past several years. I also have reflected on my ...

Because of rough seas, our ferry this morning crossed over to the far side of Comino. Now, I would love to live on Comino, but there are ...

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_de_Ggantija.jpg Today, I visited the second Neolithic site I have seen in two years, but t...