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Pat Gillespie - who has written 5 posts on Catholic Exchange.


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There Is Nothing You’d Rather Be Doing

Posted on 08 February 2010

Often, when I taught a college class, I would tell the students that, given the realities of their lives, there was nowhere they would rather be at that moment than right where they were, in my class.

Nancy Pelosi and Darth Vader

Posted on 11 January 2010

It seems Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has done it again. Her comments about abortion and her Catholic faith are always sure to garner media attention. Her year end interview with Newsweek ’s Eleanor Clift was no exception.…

Either/Or Can be a Trap

Posted on 11 November 2009

Many years ago I was listening to a discussion about incarceration. One person was arguing that we put people in prison as a form of punishment. The other person was arguing that prison is meant for rehabilitation. I listened

A Crucial Choice

Posted on 24 August 2009

One day in church I was listening to the story of the widow of Nain.  She was the widow who was grieving over the body of her only son as it was being carried out of the city to…

Submission is a Dirty Word

Posted on 08 August 2009

Many years ago when our first child was only about one year old and we were living in Banff, Alberta, three teenage girls appeared one afternoon at our door. We did not know any of them, but, they

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