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God’s Tri-colored Love
Aunt Natalie Behr, my Godmother, bought a Pontiac painted three colors, which was the style in the 1950’s. My mother was with her and others when they went to a movie downtown. When Aunt Natalie came out and unlocked her car, they found the remains of a luncheon on the back seat. Mystified! The…
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This Is Our Home
Every morning, I walk the grounds of St. Ignatius Hall that are closed in by a muffler of tall trees and short trees and bushes and shrubs. The other morning, as I started around the circle, I stopped and looked at a beautiful heap of greens. And I thought: “This is where I belong. This is home….
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Habemus Papam
Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show. Pope Leo XIV’s family tree shows Black roots in New Orleans Genealogist and founder of Unearthing Your Roots, Chris Smothers, traced Pope Leo XIV’s family tree which showed a reflection of America’s…
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Another Successor of Peter
What’s in a name? A lot. Leo XIV is a name that suggests two things: continuity and change. Continuity because there have been thirteen Leos before him. His first challenge is that Leo the First (440 to 461) is now known as Leo the Great, who dissuaded Atila the Hun from invading Italy and helped…
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The Next Successor to St. Peter
A reporter remarked to one of the cardinals getting set to elect the new pope the he wondered what the successor to Pope Francis would be like. The cardinal answered: We are not electing a successor to Pope Francis. We are electing a successor to Peter the Apostle. That puts the correct angle of vision on this. Through a…
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As I Have Loved You
A recent gospel passage (maybe on the day I write this) reports Jesus saying Who sees me sees the Father. To know and believe in Jesus of Nazareth is not a distraction from knowing and believing in God Almighty. It’s the way God chose for us to do it. Who sees me sees the Father. He said…
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This Is Worth Saying
I am more certain that I will live forever than I am that I will be alive tomorrow morning. All who have accepted Jesus Christ can say the same, because we don’t manufacture that joy or that hope—they are given us with our firm belief in Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Neither is that firm belief…
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Jesus and Nicodemus
Nicodemus really wanted to understand. He went in the dark to find Jesus and the first thing he hears is that he has to be born again It was not a good beginning. It will be nearly two thousand years before being “born again” has any meaning that Nicodemus might have understood. Back then, all…
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What We Do Know
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, is now gone from us. We know that he fully expected to be with God in Christ when he went through death. Now it is our turn. We declare, in what we say and love and in what we do—that we fully expect to be with God in Christ when…
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Purgatory? We’re in It!
Some councils have been trying for maybe 1,000 years to get the belief in Purgatory, which is not named in the bible, as part of our faith. For if our sins are to be purged (with suffering, of course) after we are dead, then we are free to insist with God that we live without…