Category Archives: Being Catholic

Trying to live as if loving God, and my neighbors, matters

Not All Saints are Either Italian or Irish

Some Catholics seem to have at least a year’s worth of Saints’ feast days memorized. I’m not one of those Catholics. The up side of this is that I’ll run across new-to-me Saints now and then. Like Francis Xavier Seelos. … Continue reading →

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My Health Care Directive: Being Specific

I’ve been distracted this week. Wednesday morning I got and started reading documents involved in setting up family property/estate/whatever arrangements for at least the next generation. I was part-way through the last document when a video conference with the lawyer … Continue reading →

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Lock Repair and Unchanging Principles

This week I remembered the time I helped fix a lock. That got me thinking about natural law and free will, among other things. A Lock, a Broken Key, and Frustration I spent two decades of my life working for … Continue reading →

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Voting, Voter Resources, Faith, and Me

It was a bit past one when I voted in Minnesota’s primaries this Tuesday. Two of the three election judges were checking off other voters when I got there. Verifying that I was a registered voter went smoothly. I gave … Continue reading →

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AI, “Magnifica Humanitas”, Thomas Aquinas, and Me

Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” (on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence) came out in May. I didn’t expect it to be a fast read, and I was right. In English, it runs to nearly 38,000 … Continue reading →

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