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Humanae Vitae Award: Fr. Greg Paffel, Parishes on the Prairie 0 (0)

My parish is Our Lady of the Angles in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. It’s part of the Parishes on the Prairie Catholic Community — and that’s a topic for another time. Aside from routine matters, we’re not exactly at the center … Continue reading

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“Christmas Sermon for Pagans”: Viewpoints, Nature; and Hope 0 (0)

One, maybe two, articles by C. S. Lewis reappeared about a half-dozen years back. Not that they’d been invisible. Collectors had the articles in their copies of The Strand Magazine, but “A Christmas Sermon for Pagans” and “Cricketer’s Progress” hadn’t … Continue reading

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Secondary Causes: Both/And, not Either/Or 0 (0)

How the Grand Canyon was formed depends on who’s talking. Scientists say it’s what happened as a river cut through the Colorado Plateau. Since I think scientists are right about the Colorado River’s role in making that mile-deep gulch, and … Continue reading

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Floyd/Chauvin Trial, Taser Trouble and Irksome Issues 0 (0)

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, a jury said that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. Folks have been reacting to that. But protestors haven’t torched Minneapolis shops and services in the three days since then. Not as far as I know. … Continue reading

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Christopher Marlowe and His World 0 (0)

I’d started writing about soliloquies in Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus….” That reminded me of film noir and the Gunpowder Plot. So today I’ll be discussing Christopher Marlowe, but mostly his era: Elizabethan England. Along with European politics and whatever else comes … Continue reading

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