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The Smoking Priest
Old Ideas Rising from the Ground
By
Father James Farfaglia
I thoroughly enjoyed Steven Spielberg’s version of “War of the Worlds.” The special effects that Spielberg uses to show the aliens coming out of the ground are really cool. Heresies (yes, I did use that word) are like the aliens that come out of the ground. Harlan Ogilvy in Spielberg’s movie says it well when…
Saving Friendship
By
Father James Farfaglia
Email, Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, text messages…we do live in a different world. I will not deny the good that new technologies can do for all of us. I do a lot of work with the Internet and my Internet ministry has helped a lot of people. However, technology must not be a substitute for…
Abortion, Culture Wars and the Fourth of July
By
Father James Farfaglia
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776). Freedom and the pursuit of happiness are impossible without the fundamental right to…
The Mystery of God and Communion
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Father James Farfaglia
St. Augustine was once confronted by a pagan leader who showed him his idol and said, “Here is my god; where is yours?” Augustine replied, “I cannot show you my God; not because there is no God to show but because you have no eyes to see him.” The mystery of the Blessed Trinity is…
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