Chapters 37 and 38 in Genesis offer us back-to-back stories of people deceiving others but with an unexpected twist: One deceiver is praised and the other is...
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I spent half of October in Tunisia, a country with more olive trees than people and more date palms than cars. (I actually have no idea if these facts are...
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
A young man approaches Jesus and asks, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tells him to follow the commandments and love God and his...
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. (Wisdom 3:1) This is the year my mother died. Which makes...
First of all, let me address the elephant in the room: This is a Testaments column, but I am not Alice Camille. I know that, for many of our subscribers and...
I had the dream again the other night, one I’ve had a hundred times over. I’m at school but not in class. Rather, I’m at my locker, desperately trying to find...
“This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers . . . and all the people by speaking such words to them.” (Jeremiah 38:4) My best...
Legend goes that the Virgin Mary gave the rosary to St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order. Dominic had been battling the Catharists, heretics who denied...
