Deepak Chopra on Jesus?

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I don't buy what the New Age writer is selling in his latest book, and I'm guessing most other CE readers don't, either.… Read More

Comparing Eve and Mary

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Advent seems a good time to revisit some older (19th century) theology that contrasts Eve with Mary.… Read More

A chain email prayer from St. Therese?

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If you spend any time with email, you've probably received an occasional chain letter, in spite of any spam filter settings meant to protect against that sort of thing. The spam promising a financial windfall from little-known African… Read More

Thinking about saints and other heroes

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This essay was sparked by musings from another blogger with whom I am friendly, and the question he opened with was "are we all called to heroism?"
I don't know whether his timing was intentional, but it fits… Read More

A lack (perhaps) of charity

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I respect Mark Shea, and do understand that zinging him in this forum might be as impolite as Steve Earle's assertion that he would stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in his cowboy boots to proclaim Townes Van… Read More

A Catholic-Jewish dialog over at American Spectator Online

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Catholic Exchange readers may be interested in an informal dialog over at American Spectator Online, the politically conservative web site to which I sometimes contribute. AmSpec, as some of us like to call her (or TAS, as the… Read More

Fear of “Christo-fascists”?

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Like Andrew Sullivan's fear of "Christianists," my friend Stacey's fear of "Christo-fascists" is entirely misplaced. It also bears striking resemblance to those those ill-informed warnings about how George Bush or James Dobson or Fr. Richard John Neuhaus is… Read More

Reconsidering the miraculous

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From my blog, The Paragraph Farmer:
The very young and the very wise see miracles in every sunrise and every breath. The rest of us muddle along myopically, wondering why God does not make His presence more obvious.… Read More

Hymns versus power ballads

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Hi! I'm new to the friends of CE blog space, although not to Catholic Exchange itself. I wanted to chime in on Rich Leonardi's recent post. You remember that he accurately and pithily summarized the pope by saying… Read More

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