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“Everyday, I must become…”
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know…
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“Why, Mr Anderson? Why?”
If you’re a bit of a nerd like me, then you’d know that at the end of the Matrix trilogy, our protagonist fights a losing battle against his enemy, Agent Smith. He keeps getting knocked, beat, and thrown around Matrix-style, but after he is dealt a devastating blow, Smith questions Neo’s resolve to keep fighting.…
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“Where were you…?”
One of the benefits of my MDiv program is the pastoral formation. I chose it precisely for this reason. I’d studied philosophy for four years, and at one point, we even talked about whether a thing such as a chair exists or if what exists is just the atoms that make it up. (My answer:…
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Now I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
So, I just saw Oppenheimer. Since it’s received so much positive press, I thought I ought to go see it. The one word I could think of to describe it afterwards is “terrifying”. Obviously, the film presents us with what were and still are questionable decisions made by the US Government. (Go figure!) But if…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
There’s a lot to say about Everything Everywhere All at Once. A bit like Shawshank Redemption, I spent the beginning of the film wondering where this is all going, what it’s building up to, but by the end, I started to see the loose ends coming together. At first, it felt very much like a…
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History and Belief
A few months ago, I read Francis Sullivan’s Salvation Outside the Church? I only meant to read a portion of it for a research essay, but I confess to having devoured it in a few days. I recall being obscenely busy with school and work, but I just couldn’t put that book down. It was…
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Thoughts from Underground
St Peter’s Basilica isn’t actually that old. The construction of the Basilica that we see today only began in the 16th century and was completed in the 17th. Before that, there was Old St Peter’s Basilica, which was constructed in the 4th century. Going back even further, we would not find a basilica at all…
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The Virtue of Not Acting Your Age
The other day, I was sitting in on a confirmation class, listening to a young and charismatic seminarian explain the idea of belief in God. He expressed an overload of ideas and sentiments, some of which I would say I can relate to or that played an important role in my own “pilgrimage”. And every…
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The Catholic Difference
What is it about the Catholic Church that makes it unique among all the other Christian churches? Is it belief in Jesus? No, they all have that. Is it its apostolicity? No, the Orthodox have that. Is it valid sacraments? No, the Orthodox have that as well. What about unbroken, unchanging teaching? No: the Church…
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