June 25, 2022
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Tag: Commandments

A Bureaucrat’s Nightmare

The National Archivesย in Washington, D.C. has an excellent online gift store. Recently, I stumbled across a collection of โ€œred tapeโ€ souvenirs in the form of pendants and cufflinks and paperweights. The words on the paperweight are interesting:...

The Bridge Commandment

When I learned the Ten Commandments back in grade school, I was taught the 4thย Commandment as simply: โ€œHonor thy father and thy mother.โ€ But on Mt. Sinai when God gave Moses the Commandments, He said: โ€œHonor your father and your mother, that you may...

But Why Was it Wrong?

The now infamous eleven-year-old video of Donald Trump has critically wounded his candidacy. Whether it is a mortal wound is yet to be determined. The media claim that they are appalled by Trumpโ€™s language and his apparent attitude toward women...

Fulfilling God’s Law

Fulfilling God’s Law

In the Gospel of Matthew (5:17-37), Jesus engages his disciples in a process known as โ€œexegesisโ€ which is an explanation or elucidation of a particular text of scripture. Jesus addresses some of the difficult aspects of Mosaic law: killing...

Keep Holy the Sabbath

Several years ago, someone coined the phrase โ€œCreastersโ€ for those Catholics, and I use the word Catholic loosely here, who choose to attend Mass twice a year โ€“ to remember the Birth and Resurrection of Christ.ย  I absolutely do not understand their...

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