Category: A Sampler of Posts
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What is a vocation anyway?
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1 comment on What is a vocation anyway?I’m not sure this talk of vocations makes sense outside of a Catholic context. Do Protestant and other denominations have the concept of "vocation?" How can we explain it to those who don’t? I suppose we start from Heaven and work backwards. Heaven is like a wedding feast. Cf. Hosea. Cf. the book of Revelation. …
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At least carrying all those heavy books prepared me for carrying a toddler.
A reasonable question raised on one of my Catholic discussion lists: "Why would a young woman spend three or four years to get a specialized degree that she won’t ever be using?" In other words, is education wasted on the at-home mother? Really, for those of us whose vocation is marriage and motherhood, and who…
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This isn’t so hard, folks
Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna, wrote an op-ed in the NYT stating that evolution driven by random processes is incompatible with truth: Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense – an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection – is not. Any system…
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Michelangelo
From the L. A. Times: Throughout the two-day conclave, Mahony said, he and other cardinals were moved by the fact that they were participating in a historic event in the dramatic setting of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with paintings of damnation and salvation by Michelangelo, including the "Last Judgment." "I kept looking up at all…
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“So that’s what they’re for”
Editing note years later. This is one of my earliest posts on the subject. If I were to write it today, I’d want to make it more clear that the problem, or fault, with just baring one’s breast to nurse a baby doesn’t belong to either mother or baby. It’s not surprising that we usually…
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