“The more things change,…”

“The more things change,…” June 30, 2010MediaEd Pluchar There was a feature in the Chicago Tribune this past Sunday which was simply uncanny, though not surprising.  Headlines and political cartoons were reprinted from as long as 140 years ago, with the too-blunt-to-be-implicit point that we haven’t really conquered many of our big problems.  A few… Continue reading “The more things change,…”

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St. Ruthie the Silly

St. Ruthie the Silly January 11, 2016UncategorizedEd Pluchar I’m not sure anyone who has met our second eldest has managed to forget her.  I like to say that I’ve never met anyone like her, and it’s still true. Ruth is a child who has seemed to love life from birth; one assumes she was not… Continue reading St. Ruthie the Silly

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Spirit and Letter of the Law

Spirit and Letter of the Law August 14, 2017UncategorizedEd Pluchar The Pharisees made an art and a science out of observing the Law of Moses, cowing many followers into observing the endless minutiae and machinations they had devised.  It was indeed a heavy burden – was God really like this? Or should the commandments of God liberate… Continue reading Spirit and Letter of the Law

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Spirit and Flesh – Preface

Spirit and Flesh – Preface March 12, 2017UncategorizedEd Pluchar “The condition of human nature … is such that it has to be led by things corporeal and sensible to things spiritual and intelligible.”  – St. Thomas Aquinas As always, St. Thomas has not only arrived where we want to go centuries in advance, but he has done so… Continue reading Spirit and Flesh – Preface

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Spirit and Flesh – 6

Spirit and Flesh – 6 April 11, 2017UncategorizedEd Pluchar Another great example of a natural metaphor to explain a supernatural phenomenon is evidenced by the manifold answers to the following question: What, exactly, did Jesus accomplish on the Cross? It is cast as ransom for a prisoner, as redemption of a slave, as rescue from… Continue reading Spirit and Flesh – 6

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