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Christianity and Independence Day
Independence Day in America is a secular holiday celebrating freedom with picnics, fireworks, parades, and the proud display of the American flag. For Christians, Independence Day means even more, for by the signing of the Declaration of Independence a series … Continue reading
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Christianity and Labor Day: Why Work Matters
Americans first celebrated Labor Day in the 1880s during the height of the Industrial Revolution in America when immigrants were coming to America to fill the growing number of low-paying jobs in factories in American cities. The founders of Labor … Continue reading
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Bartholomew de Las Casas: Missionary Advocate for the Indigenous People of New Spain
When in 2016 Pope Francis visited Chiapas, Mexico, to demand rights for the indigenous people of Mexico, he was on familiar ground for champions of indigenous rights. Four hundred and eighty-one years earlier, in 1544, one of the great champions … Continue reading
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The Theology of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Joseph Razinger’s (Pope Benedict XVI’s) book Eschatology
What happens when we die? Roman Catholics have death ever on the mind. It is part of Christian theology, to follow the commandments and sacraments so to be prepared when death comes. But then, why do we still fear death? … Continue reading
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Thomas Merton and the Great Commission
Thomas Merton spent his life contemplating his purpose in the world, trying to discern how his desires and ambitions fit God’s plan. Born in France in 1915, Merton was well-traveled, a convert to Catholicism, and by his own admission was … Continue reading
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The Poetry of Providence: King David and the Psalms
Divine Providence in the life and thought of King David as revealed in the Psalms: the Psalms as the poetry of Providence, in that, throughout the Psalms, God the Logos interacts with time through the person of King David, to … Continue reading
Primer on Providence: Augustine’s City of God
Augustine, a convert to Christianity who had experienced four seconds of providence in 386 AD, who had become Bishop of Hippo in Africa in 397, who had written an account of his life, Confessions, in 392, who heard as all … Continue reading
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Four Seconds of Providence
Providence, the will and presence of God in each moment, is never felt by some people, is felt in moments of joy or consternation by others, is sensed in the minutiae of nature by some, is a product of intense … Continue reading
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Ignatius of Loyola, Soldier for Christ
Ignatius of Loyola was a soldier for Navarre, Spain, who became a soldier for Christ. Recovering from battle wounds at his family’s castle in Loyola in the Basque region of Spain, he experienced conversion in which he renounced his former … Continue reading
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Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), Missionary Bishop on Horseback
Visitors to downtown Santa Fe are drawn to two majestic buildings, the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi and the Chapel of the Loretto Sisters. Little would one suspect today that the founder of these two buildings, indeed the father … Continue reading
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The American Plutarch 