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Pope begins his week-long apostolic trip to Mexico and Cuba (opens the original)
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Vatican City, 23 March 2012 (VIS) – Benedict XVI today began his twenty-third apostolic trip abroad, which is taking him to Mexico and Cuba. The Holy Father departed from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at 9.30 a.m. and is due to land at Leon in the Mexican State of Guanajuato at 4.30 p.m. local time (11.30 p.m. in Rome). Leon is the fourth largest city in Mexico and lies at the geographical centre of the country. The Holy Father will remain in Mexico until 26 March, during which time he will lodge in
Free will and the drama of sin (opens the original)
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Readings: • Ez 18:25-28 • Psa 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Phil 2:1-11 • MT 21:28-32 Many years ago, I exchanged letters with an atheist. In the course of our discussion, he made two statements about how the God of Christians was “unfair.” It isn’t fair, he insisted, that God limits human freedom by imposing rules against various actions and desires. And it also isn’t fair, he wrote, that God has allowed pain, suffering, and evil in this world. A good God, he argued, wouldn’t allow such things. It was an
Free will and the drama of sin (opens the original)
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Readings: • Ez 18:25-28 • Psa 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Phil 2:1-11 • MT 21:28-32 Many years ago, I exchanged letters with an atheist. In the course of our discussion, he made two statements about how the God of Christians was “unfair.” It isn’t fair, he insisted, that God limits human freedom by imposing rules against various actions and desires. And it also isn’t fair, he wrote, that God has allowed pain, suffering, and evil in this world. A good God, he argued, wouldn’t allow such things. It was an
Books, NOW’s “Dirty 100”, History, Insults, Sentimentality, Tunes, and Pet Peeves (opens the original)
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• I’m making a concerted effort to keep this edition of “Carl’s Cuts” quite short. Which is why I’ve titled it— • Nevermind, it’ll take too long to explain. • What books are you not reading this summer? I ask because the Wall Street Journal recently ran an interesting piece, “The Summer’s Most Unread Book Is…” by Jordan Ellenberg, about popular books that apparently aren’t read from beginning to end, eroding or even destroying the reader’s will to continue reading. Among them is one book I have
The Holy Cross is an invitation to faith, to life, to love (opens the original)
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Readings: • Num 21:4b-9 • Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38 • Phil 2:6-11 • Jn 3:13-17 “By its elevation, the Cross is like an appeal to the whole creation to adore the blessed Passion of Christ our God who was suspended on it, for Christ destroyed by this Cross the one who had destroyed us.” These words, from the Vespers celebrated on this feast day by Byzantine Catholics, proclaim some of the mystery, hope, and paradox of the Holy Cross. There is the mystery of the death of the God-man, the hope o
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