There is a current story on CNN that makes me ache for my fellow veterans. See below: I work for the VA, and it is worse than you think. The story mentioned mistaken laboratory results in one sentence. In the lab in which I work, we are seven (7) Medical Laboratory Scientists under strength. Because […]
Archives for September 2012
Well, there goes another science standby
A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. […]
Archbishop Dmitri (of Blessed Memory) on freedom from 1988
The article below comes from the October 1988 edition of The Dawn, the newspaper of the Diocese of the South. I has been republished more than once. I just saw the latest reprint of it in the Preachers Institute. A Christian Understanding of Freedom People generally use the word freedom in order to describe two things: the […]
Fist bumps and raising children who are comfortable in the faith
Two Sundays ago, I received a holy fist bump. Yes, I am serious, a holy fist bump. It was given to me by a nervous 8-year-old new altar boy. It is a story of raising our children in trust that the Lord will supplement our feeble efforts with his grace that overflows all that we […]
Cardinal Dolan, humor, and the Christian life
As many of you know, Cardinal Dolan of New York is one of the Archbishops who filed suit against the Obama administration for the insurance mandate that many Roman Catholics consider to be forcing them to go against their faith in providing a coverage with which they do not religiously agree. Part of the argument […]
Scripture, the Divine Liturgy, and contemporary worship
There is an excellent resource called the Preachers Institute which recently had an excellent article called, The Eternal Liturgy vs. Contemporary Worship. It is an extremely good article. What particularly impressed me was the way in which it handles several of the Old Testament Scriptures in order to point out that liturgical worship is quite in line with […]
Coptic Church rejects anti-Mohammed film
We all know that there is a horrendous amount of violence happening in the Middle East as a result of a person who claims to be a Coptic Christian. That person has now been repudiated by the Coptic Church. While I realize that the Coptic Church is not an Eastern Orthodox Church, nevertheless it is […]
The Lord is my shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will […]
Missionaries and healthy technology
Most people do not realize how high a percentage of missionaries do more than preach the Gospel or build churches. For instance, the Cyrillic alphabet is named after Saint Cyril. Yes, I am aware that neither SS Cyril nor Methodius invented the Cyrillic alphabet. However, they did invent the Glagolithic alphabet that becomes one of […]
Labor Day statement 2012 by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
This Labor Day, our country continues to struggle with a broken economy that is not producing enough decent jobs. Millions of Americans suffer from unemployment, underemployment or are living in poverty as their basic needs too often go unmet. This represents a serious economic and moral failure for our nation. As people of faith, we […]
