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When Mike Leach and I compiled our book “I Like Being Catholic,” he listed ten reasons why a person should raise her kids Catholic. One was so that, as teenagers, the kids would have something to reject.When Katherine and David head off to college, they may become atheists. Especially if they go back and read…

I came across this excerpt from John Henry Cardinal Newman just as I was thinking about why I hang onto my religion even in its disappointing moments. A religious mind is ever marveling, and irrelgious men laugh and scoff at it because it marvels. A religious mind is ever looking out of itself, is ever…

Dear God, I can’t say that I like today’s reading in Luke … about the rich man and the poor man, Lazarus, who sat at fat daddy’s door devouring the banana peels and chicken bones falling from the feasts of Mr. Selfish while the dogs licked the nasty scabs all over his body. They both…

Just as I was contemplating some big questions yesterday, I pulled out the book, “Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits,” and read this beautiful reflection by Anthony de Mello, the late Jesuit from India who conducted countless workshops throughout the world on the subject of prayer and reflective living. This meditation is called “A Testament,”…
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