Grazing on “Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist” – Foreword

Me vida commented the other day that I am a gluttonous reader. She’s right. Most of the time I read greedily. I shovel down page after page with hardly a…
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Me vida commented the other day that I am a gluttonous reader. She’s right. Most of the time I read greedily. I shovel down page after page with hardly a…
Read moreAt lunch today, I discovered David Clayton, artist and lecturer at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he also blogs. In addition to a meaningful contribution of Clayton Psalm…
Read moreDr. Taylor Marshall posted his first podcast today, and what a great start! In this first podcast, Dr. Marshall offers some tips for personal productivity and some advice on finding…
Read moreOur conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved and enjoy…
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Downton Abbey presents, for our entertainment, typical soap-opera delights such as theft, lying, blackmail, class warfare, and unchastity. The unchastity comes in your typical soap-opera flavors: hetrosexual or homosexual? between peers, or exploiting age and authority differences? consensual or coerced? While some elements may have given scandal fifty years ago, they’re common fare in modern times.
That is exactly the problem.
We’re not scandalized.
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