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Soft Peddling The Truth?
Several years ago, during the question period following a talk I had given, I was asked a series of questions about morality, sin, confession, and forgiveness. I began my response
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Romance Gives Inkling Of Heaven
Recently a Canadian poet, J.S. Porter, published a book of poems under the title, The Thomas Merton Poems (Moonstone Press, 1988). His claim is that these poems Merton might have
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Pedophilia Raises Hard Questions
This article will, I fear, upset a number of people. Something needs to be said, but, given the levels of hurt, disillusionment, bitterness, anticlerical glee, vicarious over-identification, and just simple
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Denying Power Of Sex Dangerous
A recent article in the Vancouver Province strongly attacked its province’s government for refusing to provide funding for the distribution of an educational video on sex. The government had refused
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Yuppie Excellence Lacks Depth
A new word recently entered the English vocabulary – yuppies. The term may not sound very serious, but the reality it connotes and describes is one of the significant social
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Fear Of Tenderness Stifles Soul
“The person who will not have a softening of the heart will eventually have a softening of the brain!” That warning, issued by G.K. Chesterton more than a half century
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It’s Easy To Sacrifice Others
“It is better that one man should die for the people.” Why does that line have so haunting a sound? Why does it sound like the refrain of a litany?
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We Can’t Turn Away From Politics
For many of us, politics is a dirty word. It speaks of dishonesty, misused power, patronage, self -interest, pressure groups, propaganda, and ideology. Phrases such as “an honest politician” or
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Church’s Rebirth Followed Pain
“God, what’s it all coming to? Sometimes I wonder where the world and the church are going! Who would have ever thought it would turn out this way? Whatever happened
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Listening To Different Voices
I am particularly fond of biography. Stories of people’s lives, save for the cheaper accounts of the lives of the rich and famous, are a special kind of literature. A