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Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Fifth Commandment
An old axiom suggests that the sixth commandment gets all the ink, but the fifth commandment is the one that does us in. This is quite accurate. We are always
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Honour Your Father and Mother: The Fourth Commandment
On the surface, the demands of this commandment are clear. It asks, first, that we give honour, obedience, gratitude and affection to our parents and elders since it is to
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Remember To Keep Holy The Sabbath Day: The Third Commandment
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. What is forbidden by this edict? In dealing with the third commandment perhaps it is better to ask what is bidden by
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You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord In Vain: The Second Commandment
The second commandment is perhaps the most misunderstood of all the commandments. How do I take God’s name in vain? The common idea is that we break this commandment when
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You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me: The First Commandment
Among all the commandments, the first is the most difficult to keep. We are forever worshipping strange gods. Idolatry, more so even than atheism, is what is natural to us.
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Protect Us From All Anxiety
During the prayers at a Eucharist, just after the Lord’s Prayer, the priest adds the following: “Protect us from all anxiety …” In English it is not so clear what
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Daily Mass
I have been a priest for more than twenty years and one of the great privileges of that has been the opportunity to say mass daily. At that daily mass
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In Defense of Religion
Today, more and more, God and religion are seen as either a naiveté or a compost. For a good number of persons, belief in God and religious practice are seen
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1996 Will Be A Good Year If
Bernard Lonergan, one of the great intellectuals of our century, used to speak of something he called differentiated consciousness. For him, that meant a mind that did not think simplistically,
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A Human Saint
On December 3rd, 1995, Pope John Paul II formally declared Eugene de Mazenod, the former bishop of Marseilles, France, a saint of the church. For myself, this was not just