Archive for August, 2010
Pastor's Desk: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
This week’s article comes from Fr. Tom Cahill, writing for Intercom magazine.
High Flyers
Cleo, a 13-year-old pet parrot, is usually a model macaw. But one day she had a panic attack and just lost it. She shot up 15 m (50 ft) into a tree and couldn’t come down. Having branched out, she fazed out. Her [...]
August 28, 2010
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Pastor's Desk: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
This week’s article comes from Fr. Tom Cahill, writing for Intercom magazine.
The Punisher
An atheist doesn’t usually feel the need for a supernatural being – and one that’s a punisher to boot! But last year at the annual conference of the British Association of Science its president said that religion may have helped to protect society [...]
August 21, 2010
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Pastor's Desk: Feast of the Assumption
This week’s article comes from Fr. Tom Cahill, writing for Intercom magazine.
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This feast really is a test of faith. Today’s First and Second Readings don’t make things any easier. I suppose for many it’s just a feast and that’s it. Just something we commemorate because the Church teaches infallibly [...]
August 14, 2010
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Pastor's Desk: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
This week’s article comes from Fr. Tom Cahill, writing for Intercom magazine.
On the Ball
Scientists can be on the ball just as much as footballers. Take Danish physicist Niels Bohr (d. 1962) for example. He watched westerns. As he did, he noted that something strange happened in them: the gunslinger who went for his gun first, [...]
August 7, 2010
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