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A CATHOLIC PENTECOSTAL
Absurd! This is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. How can one be both a Catholic and a Pentecostal? When we use caps to denote Proper Nouns then it may seem contradictory. But if we use small letters to denote adjectives, then the apparent contradiction is removed. Catholic, as we know, means universal. It was…
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What’s Good This Friday?
As the Secretary of the Legion of Mary in my parish 51 years ago it was my lot to give a commentary on the Holy Week liturgy. That got me thinking on what was so unique about Jesus’ rather “limited” suffering on the cross. Take the number three. Three temptations in the desert, three years…
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NANO POWER
The Tokyo Olympics 2020 have been postponed indefinitely because of that wicked little pathogen – the Corona Virus. The irony should not be lost on the world we live in. The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius” the Latin words for “Faster, Stronger, and Higher”. The ancient Greeks held the Olympics from 8 BC to…
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HANG RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY IS THE BIG BANG!
(Concluding part of the trilogy “Is Religion Dead?” and “Was Jesus Religious?”) My previous two articles were in response to questions being raised about religion in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.They have elicited varying responses. One school of thought still clings to the belief that Religion is now dead and we have ushered in…
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TILLY WASN’T SILLY
By the time you get to read this article the tidal waves of sympathy and tchk-tchking over the tsunami disaster will have subsided; and life, for the vast majority of us, would have returned to “normal”. Therein lies the real and hidden danger, which this piece seeks to expose. There are many things beyond our…
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