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Today’s gospel is, to a great extent, about second chances. Someone who knows about that is an Air Force pilot named Joe Kittinger. In the late 1950s, Joe Kittinger was the director of Project Excelsior, a government program to develop safety techniques for pilots who had to eject from aircraft at high altitudes. It was…

Here’s an unusual idea, and it might make for an interesting exercise for a homiletics class. A group of journalists headed out to 10 different churches in Ireland last Sunday, to hear the homilies and write about what they heard. Were they relevant? Did they connect with people? Were they too long or too short?…

Good question. Those of us who are of a certain age (cough, cough) remember references to it from the ’60s. But that fell out of fashion. If you’re curious, the good people at New Advent have a comprehensive explanation: everything you always wanted to know about Passion Sunday but were afraid to ask. Excerpts: Eons…

“You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated. Many of you found that, when you were courageous enough to speak of what happened to you, no one would listen. Those of you…
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