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Lent: Day Seventeen--Even if God Doesn't Exist, God IS Real

Lent: Day Seventeen--Even if God Doesn't Exist, Go..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Every once in a while I run across an atheist who decides he is going to show my the error of my ways and the level of my delusion. A rational, educat..
Lent: Day Eighteen–I’m No Judas! I’m So Much Worse...

Lent: Day Eighteen–I’m No Judas! I’m So Much..

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


When I was still in college, I had a dream that I was sent back into time to the time of Jesus. In the dream, my job was to make sure that Jesus was c..
Lent: Day Nineteen

Lent: Day Nineteen

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Jesus said to his disciples:“Don’t assume that I have come to sabotage Moses’ set of rules or the prophets’ teachings. I haven..
Lent: Day Twenty-Two

Lent: Day Twenty-Two

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Then Jesus told this story to those who look down on everybody else, while being convinced that they themselves are hot stuff. “Once upon a time..
Lent: Day Twenty-Three

Lent: Day Twenty-Three

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Tax-collectors and people with notoriously bad reputations flocked around Jesus so that they could hear him speak. But the lay-ministers and bibli..
Lent: Day Twenty-Four

Lent: Day Twenty-Four

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Cain sacrificed his brother to his jealousy and sin, and that blood never stopped accusing him, declaring his guilt; God sacrificed His Son for us..
Jesuit 101--Jesuit Spirituality

Jesuit 101--Jesuit Spirituality

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


We have a Jesuit pope now, so a lot of people are probably trying to learn what that means.
Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The reign of King David was coming to an end. To put it plainly he was old. He was definitely tired. The first half of his life was spent building a k..
Special B******s.

Special B******s.

A Poem by Thomas Fitzgerald


Just a look at the law that names children born to unmarried people who late became married in Ireland - such as myself, were refered to as Special B*..
Who Are You?

Who Are You?

A Poem by Mason Rayburn


Who are you to question life? Question pain, question strife? And who are you to cast away? Leading false, lead astray? Who are you to cut so..
Being American

Being American

A Story by Father Mojo


Being an American should be like being clergy!In spite of what some people believe, being clergy is not about privilege, neither is it about abusing p..
Ethics and the Common (Wo)Man

Ethics and the Common (Wo)Man

A Story by Constance Payne


I recently completed an ethics class and find it amazing how few ethics many professionals have.
Arrangements.

Arrangements.

A Chapter by Sarah F-W


Reaching the ground floor, I could hear the buzz of the administration floor and the swish of the glass revolving doors as the lifted sounded and ..
Connections

Connections

A Book by Sarah F-W


Emma Telmon has nothing going for her. A demeaning job and controlling Ex that she just got away from, now she's searching for a sign, a reason to sta..
Orders.

Orders.

A Chapter by Sarah F-W


Oh joy, a ping. This means only one thing, Brian cannot be bothered, yet again, to get up off his fat buttocks the other side of the massive oak d..
Spiritual Sickness and Its Spiritual Remedy

Spiritual Sickness and Its Spiritual Remedy

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


Traditionally, in Western Christianity, sin is seen as a transgression of a list of rules or commandments. It is often viewed as an active and willful..
The Church -- Think Universal, Act Particular...

The Church -- Think Universal, Act Particular...

A Story by Bishop R. Joseph Owles


The Church exists as two concepts: there is The Church, which is the catholic expression of faith and vision �" the Church in its entirety..