08 December 2013

Vocations soaring in faithful dioceses and orders

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Why are vocations to the priesthood soaring in some dioceses and religious orders? It's NOT b/c those dioceses and orders are wor...
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"I am only a man: I need visible signs."

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The Second Sunday of Advent is our time to acknowledge and celebrate the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. . .in that spirit, here's a poem b...
06 December 2013

Miscellany. . .

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First semester of NDS classes are over!  Finals next week. . .for the seminarians. For me, a week of preaching tutorials and formatio...
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03 December 2013

Evangelii gaudium, or the morality of money

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I've been contemplating the swirl of controversial issues raised by the Holy Father's exhortation, Evangelii gaudium , esp. the ec...
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01 December 2013

Throw off the works of darkness!

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1 st Sunday of Advent Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA It's that time of year where we ar...
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I need help. . .

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Really, REALLY struggling with the evening's homily. . .1st Sunday of Advent. Been pecking away since 5.30am. Nothing. Nothing good ...
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Without God, there is only Nothing.

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I was clicking around this morning, looking for an old poem I vaguely remember from my undergrad days. Something about the Last Judgment a...
29 November 2013

Lukewarmness + doctrinal error + moral confusion

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A Most Excellent Article on preaching over at the Homiletic and Pastoral Review by Fr. Gabriel de Chadarévian, O.P. of the Province of Ca...
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Evangelii Gaudium translation problems

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Serious English translation problem with the original Spanish version of Evangelii gaudium : Spanish: No. 54 En este contexto, alguno...
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The culture of prosperity deadens us. . .

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"The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase. In the meantime all those...
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28 November 2013

On resisting certain temptations while reading Evangelii Gaudium

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With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us and NDS out on break, I'm hoping to read the Holy Father's apostolic exhortation, Evangelii...
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24 November 2013

The cross is his throne

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Christ the King Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA Take a moment to consider the crucifix—a cross made...

Postmodern Christianity: the flight from being

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If you're a regular reader of HA , you've probably heard/read me blabbing on about postmodern-this and postmodern-that. Trying to ...
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Go out to the existential peripheries!

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Before the 2013 Papal Conclave that elected him to the Chair of Peter, Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J. offered his thoughts on the New Evan...
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21 November 2013

Missing Books

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A couple of months ago a kind and generous HA reader purchased two books for me from the Wish List . They never arrived. Sometime...