Chiggy, the New Kid, and faith
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; For whatever reason, this week’s readings don’t resonate much with me – so instead of considering them directly, I ask you to indulge a little story […]
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Dianne Feinstein renews her anti-Catholic bigotry
By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein again is coming awfully close to expressing anti-Catholic bigotry and close to imposing an unconstitutional “religious test” upon federal […]
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St. Paul’s equivalent of the Beatitudes
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The Epistle reading this week, Romans 12:9-21, contains some of the loveliest passages in all of Paul’s writings. Indeed, one might say that these passages […]
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How St. Peter was like Jonah (without the whale)
Note from Quin: My wife, Therese, a businesswoman, joins other lay worshippers in a weekly prayer group called Daughters of Mary in which (among other things) one participant each week provides a […]
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Ch-ville: Good conservatives, radicals, and faith
Note from Quin: It so happened that various outlets this week wanted coverage, from various different perspectives, of the sad events a week ago in Charlottesville. Here are three of […]
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Love calms our turbulent waters
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The author Madeleine L’Engle, most famous for A Wrinkle in Time, interspersed all sorts of Christian references into her series of novels for adolescent readers, albeit […]
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A Fish Story Well Worth Believing: Faith
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Two years ago on my own little website I wrote a short reflection on today’s Gospel reading (or John’s version thereof) about Jesus’ famous “feeding of the 5,000” with merely […]
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Faith: We are responsible for choosing whom to follow
By Quin Hillyer at P.J. Media; …. With a miasma in American government right now, the timing could not be better for one of this week’s optional readings – the one from the […]
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Book of Wisdom says to wield power lightly
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Among the options for this week’s readings is a passage from the Wisdom of Solomon that should be a watchword in these days when people seem […]
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Parable of the sower: the community’s role
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the familiar parable of the sower, in which seed spread on rocky ground, or among thorns, or on an unguarded […]
