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Patrick OHannigan - who has written 9 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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Deepak Chopra on Jesus?

Posted on 12 February 2008

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.

Comparing Eve and Mary

Posted on 03 December 2007

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

A chain email prayer from St. Therese?

Posted on 06 November 2007

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…

Thinking about saints and other heroes

Posted on 31 October 2007

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 wonderfully with…

A lack (perhaps) of charity

Posted on 16 October 2007

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…

A Catholic-Jewish dialog over at American Spectator Online

Posted on 13 September 2007

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 editors…

Fear of “Christo-fascists”?

Posted on 11 August 2007

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…

Reconsidering the miraculous

Posted on 06 July 2007

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.

I do…

Hymns versus power ballads

Posted on 29 June 2007

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 that…

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