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June 2015

June 17, 2015
The call came within a day or two. The MRI's clanging and clanking and suffocating...
June 13, 2015
While we await the June 18, 2015 release of Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment, Laudato si...
June 09, 2015
1) The Soul: How The Beauty of Creation Can Lead a Soul to God, by...
June 06, 2015
Bruce Jenner has got me thinking about the Holy Spirit. Okay, just bear with me...
June 03, 2015
  The floodgates have opened and everyone seems to running for the nearest exit. If...

May 2015

May 30, 2015
Regular readers of Grace Pending know that I am a huge fan of Father Robert Barron, who...
May 24, 2015
  Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24)...
May 22, 2015
With Memorial Day weekend now upon us, we remember and honor all who have battled...
May 20, 2015
Contrary to popular belief, Catholics are not, and never have been, monolithic in their non-doctrinal, political views...
May 16, 2015
“From the standpoint of religious freedom, you might say it’s a choice between the Little...
May 10, 2015
From today's reading, May 10, 2015: This is my commandment: love one another as I...
May 01, 2015
It's not something that I particularly wish to dwell upon. But it's unavoidable. It's pervasive....

April 2015

April 25, 2015
Ours has become a culture of yes. One that trusts first and last in the...
April 19, 2015
  The Nicene Creed each week reminds us that when we invoke our Catholic (n.) faith, we...
April 12, 2015
It may be difficult for us, sometimes, to realistically imagine life beyond our own everyday existence....
April 09, 2015
In light of the recent Boston Bomber verdicts and the now looming penalty phase, the death...
April 06, 2015
I'm sitting, at this very moment, in a hospital waiting room in Pennsylvania while scheduled,...
April 05, 2015
He is risen, indeed! Have a blessed, transforming Easter! Here is Bishop Barron on the...

March 2015

March 29, 2015
And so today, as the season of Lent draws to a rapid close, we begin...
March 21, 2015
Those of us of a certain age will immediately recognize the unique, soft yet powerful,...
March 08, 2015
  It dawned on me as I recently watched a brief YouTube lecture (embedded below) given...
March 05, 2015
Other than a required law school course in criminal procedure, I have had no training...
March 01, 2015
I am, by disposition and training, what is generally referred to as a classic, free...

February 2015

February 21, 2015
Well, the first of my 40 days of Lent didn't start off on the right...
February 16, 2015
I started out today attempting to write about an entirely different subject - one that had gotten...
February 15, 2015
From The First Reading The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "If a swelling or...
February 08, 2015
It's the dead of winter. The snow is incessant. The cold chills from deep within....
February 05, 2015
Pope Francis - His election instantaneously compelled me to reconsider my 41-year absence. Thomas Merton...
February 01, 2015
You Shall Not Steal. Four simple words. Uncomplicated in their declaration.  Straightforward in their application....

January 2015

January 27, 2015
In my last post, Of Virtues and Gifts and Peace, I explored the four main,...
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