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Talk is Cheap
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Talk is Cheap

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by on Sep 27, 2014 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Sunday Reflections
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There will never be a shortage of words.  Words are plentiful because talk is cheap.  It’s easy to make a promise.  Keeping a promise is an entirely different matter, as this Sunday’s gospel makes abundantly clear. There are over a billion people on the planet who have solemnly promised to live a life of loving […]

Movie Review: <em>Calvary</em>
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Movie Review: Calvary

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by on Aug 14, 2014 in Featured, On TV and Movies
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The new Irish film, Calvary, is a fierce expedition into the repercussions and present climate of post-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal Ireland. It’s an unblinking, fictitious story that’s an apt vehicle not so much to wonder “how?” and “what went so terribly wrong?” as it is to gauge people’s reactions. Calvary sports the simplest, boldest, shortest Act One I […]

Lenten Meditation: He Hath Made Him to be Sin for Us
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Lenten Meditation: He Hath Made Him to be Sin for Us

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by on Mar 01, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Over the centuries, Christian artists have produced innumerable portrayals of the Lord’s crucifixion, but none so terrible as Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, a work at once transfixing and repulsive. The middle panel of the Isenheim triptych features Christ, pallid and emaciated and thorn-pierced, pinned to the tree. It is truly a garish scene, torn from […]