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Please Pray For The (Too) Many Parishioners Fighting a (losing) Battle Against The Ottawa River This Flood Season

This meme is all too true for many of my parishioners. My own cottage basement unfortunately currently has 5+ feet of water in it... and I am among the lucky ones. Many others have had their main floors inundated as well. The tragedy is all the worse given that we cannot purchase flood insurance... or at least can't buy it at a price we could afford.

The Cathedral and the Cube: Reflections on European Morale

In light of the terrible fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, it seemed right to post this synopsis from George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral  in which he uses the image of that great church as representative of the religious culture that nurtured Europe into its status as a 1st world power in opposition to the Grand Arch du Défense, the glass enclosed edifice constructed in the last years of the 20th century which represents the modernist secular society that animates most of Europe today. The Cathedral and the Cube: Reflections on European Morale - Commentary :

Blaze erupts at Paris' iconic Notre Dame Cathedral; cause unknown

Blaze erupts at Paris' iconic Notre Dame Cathedral; cause unknown :

Two Articles on Faith and Science

One of the things that Native American cultures have done for postmoderns is make a return to Catholic ways of seeing the integral nature of creation. For five hundred years, that project of the postmodern West has been to divorce the spiritual from the material and desacramentalize creation with the notion that it is just matter and energy. Two Articles on Faith and Science | Mark Shea :

Getting a little too close to God's creation?

How Christianity Led to Science

There’s this narrative out there that says that science arose in Christian Europe in spite of the antagonism of the religious authorities against reason. It portrays the scientific revolution as the inevitable triumph of reason over superstition. How Christianity Led to Science | uCatholic :

'The Universal Christ' : A Franciscan priest's electrifying take on Christology.

Here's something that was written by C. Matthew Hawkins, a third-year seminarian here in Baltimore that I am proud to now call a friend. In it he explains how Rev. Richard Rohr revives the ancient Christian teaching that God inhabits everything in the universe while transcending all things. It's well worth the read! 'The Universal Christ' : A Franciscan priest's electrifying take on Christology. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :

A Neurosurgeon's Profound Near Death Experience Completely Changes His Views on the Afterlife

Losing Canada

When the cross atop Mount Royal was first erected in 1924, the Montreal Gazette described it as “a memorial to the survival of the Canadian people, whose growth was, in the early struggles, parallel to the growth of the faith which is represented by the cross.” Losing Canada « Catholic Insight :