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If it seems like the holiday season is starting earlier this year, there’s a good reason. It is. The earliest you can have Thanksgiving is November 21st, and this year, it’s on the 22nd. And, as a result, everybody got a jump on it. This year, Halloween decorations were up in the stores when they…

A little over a week ago, I was in Atlanta, and was surprised to notice that a lot of the trees had already lost their leaves – even while many of the trees up here, further north, were still intact. I mentioned this to someone and she said there was only one reason for that.…

Originally published in CONNECT! by Liturgical Publications, Inc..Shortly after he converted to Catholicism in the late 1930s, Thomas Merton was walking the streets of New York with his friend, Robert Lax. Lax was Jewish, and he asked Merton what he wanted to be, now that he was Catholic. “I don’t know,” Merton replied, adding simply…

There’s an old joke: New York will be a great city — if they ever finish it. The city is constantly being dug up and paved over. Buildings are being torn down and rebuilt– and the older ones are always in a state of repair or renovation. You can’t walk down a city block without…
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