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… Regular readers of this column will recognize that this has long been a concern of mine. Dionne shows how both FDR and Reagan were largely successful because they did not divorce …

… on most of the style pages, and my Dad does the same with the non-local news, and a friend of mine skips even the headlines of the sports page, but admits you have to read the first headline …

… was present wrote about it and it created a news stir in South Africa. In July a colleague of mine sent me a copy of the talk, a thoughtful, critical reflection on what the bishop called …

… but without a high school diploma, and so the best job he could find was in the copper mines as a “mucker“, keeping the mine shafts clean and shoring up the timbers. But he went to school, to the School of Mines and …

… our founders to find the answer about how to do this. St. Francis said, ‘I have done what is mine to do. May Christ show you what is yours.’ In other words, the gospel will show us what to …

… immediately. It’s going to be a challenge to try to develop this attitude, “This really isn’t mine, all that I’ve accumulated, if it’s more than I need. God wants me to have everything I need …

… in Rome. My own impression is extremely positive." But one other good omen that a friend of mine noted: his last name is “Tobin.” I doubt that he is a relative of our highly esteemed Sr. …

… if these auxiliary bishops had been given dioceses of their own. ~ ~ ~ Another friend of mine died in early July at age 91. Fr. Joseph Murphy never became a bishop, but he was one of the …

… people of God. When I first saw the texts, I fretted over how they would work in a parish like mine. But after several meetings, I saw the prayers improve, and I found that my ears were …

… vision of the cosmos as a 'living host' Former Korean military officer now clearing mines 'Creative engagement' key to papal meeting with Obama See: …

… of these peace loving people -- anymore than the extremists of the IRA in Belfast were mine. Radicals on any side may be well-meaning, perhaps, but miserably inhuman in their tactics. …

… eyes, or those in my own eyes, as he spoke those words. Greater theological minds than mine must wrestle with our Catholic theology of marriage. But, the Latino Catholics of California …

… of truth comes, the spirit will guide you into the whole truth. The spirit will take what is mine and make it known to you, and in doing this, the spirit will glorify me." So Jesus was …

… utter solitude, the meaning has come clear. I look out sometimes and feel that creation is mine. Silence and solitude, howling winds and sudden rains, sequined night skies and a moon you …

… is where you sit”, and its truth is confirmed, I think, by commentators’ efforts (including mine) to answer the question, “what is the best reason to confirm, or not to confirm, Solicitor … the President’s – and so, in theory, the country’s – choice, even if she would not have been mine. At present, though, we do not inhabit such a world. In our world, more than 20 Democratic …

… where it should not…flee.” One presumes even God might flee the premises. These musings of mine intensified last week when I heard that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed a law …

… schismatic and an excommunicate. I first began thinking about excommunication when friends of mine attended the ordination of two women in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement in February …

… thanking me for my letter and telling me that he had never before received a letter such as mine. I was in awe receiving this reply. I hope that he is just as proud of me for sending this …

… a somewhat serious, no-nonsense look about her and she chooses her words carefully. Although mine was a religious family, I was actively discouraged from becoming a sister. Each time I would … they have everything they could ever want or need. But before coming here, I have to admit mine was a very childlike faith. I didn’t really have the conviction of my beliefs. I simply …

… to invoke the Spirit in English, this is your hymn. Beautiful words: “Seek now this soul of mine, And visit it with thine own ardor glowing” and “O, Let it freely burn, Till earthly …