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https://ondemand.ewtn.com/Home/Play/en/GBE23005 Commentary This episode in the EWTN series called Great Books Every Catholic Should Know supposedly focuses on one of my favourite themes, that of Love & Responsibility. While in many respects, Joseph Pearce's analyses of the calamitous political backdrops of these plays might be absolutely "spot-on", his take on alot of the characters &…

Here's me looking at, for the very first time, a Microsoft app on my laptop called Windows Sticky Notes. This is just fabulous! I love all these different ways to collate and co-ordinate my stuff on this PC. It really is terrific - all these versatile ways to store and access my numerous files and…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/netanyahu-protest-home-after-gaza-strikes-corruption/105073994 Commentary And sure enough, it is about time that such protests happened in Jerusalem because Netanyahu has got it all wrong! Look at what he says here: "To those who criticise Israel, I ask, what would you do if terrorists murdered and kidnapped your children?" he said on Tuesday night."You would do what we…

https://international.la-croix.com/world/israeli-jesuit-condemns-gaza-plan-as-another-stage-in-the-removal-of-palestinians?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=X_U57ERe5HoWkwiF6MjeBEUQ_E4m0_p5uQBcRr0Ka4.KUJY.yY9B5zABq3FjuAYngczqzFIPdw "Every morning, I know the sun will rise, and it climbs. Every morning, I hope for peace, and it remains elusive. Peace seems never to want to begin, unlike war." ~ Arnaud Alibert ¹ Before the seperatist cordoning-off of that little area now known as 'Israel' in 1948 - that area alongside all of…

https://international.la-croix.com/ethics/pope-writes-to-ai-summit-says-love-is-worth-more-than-intelligence?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=W_Am6Vtf5z4Tkg7IuorZSU9CqQM2n7YvuhpcB6JYY4rK3JwTds1at.RiePAn3zaw7Vgq01mCgA Commentary I have nearly always lauded the notion exhorted here by Pope Francis that... "Love is worth more than intelligence" So, it is on this front that I completely and wholeheartedly agree with the Holy Father's position here. And especially when it comes to those aspects of life that are to some extent, drawn…

Real, authentic God-breathed love is the antithesis of lust whereas lust is the polar inverse of love. The world, too many times, misconstrues love for lust and vice-versa. The proper definition of love is rightly ordered passion, passion that directs itself in the direction of purity of both heart and intention or will. The proper…

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261983/jesus-was-not-a-yogi-bishop-refutes-syncretistic-theories?utm_campaign=CNA%20Daily&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8BOp73yX5fIjqS2CQaUn2dCZMZw9tzEibJ5aTP1v3W_DTTuwAzCcCuLaGKrLV4wKRn99qFvZTwPrnU1hr2-nGMq5PyrA&_hsmi=345821726&utm_content=345821726&utm_source=hs_email Reflection Because Jesus is God, He doesn't need to "go anywhere to learn anything". He already knows EVERYTHING. So the whole issue about this erroneous idea that during the first 30 years of His life, Jesus went to India or Tibet to learn from Hindu and Buddhist teachings is nothing short of preposterous and absurd.…

Today I received a truly inspiritive newsletter from EWTN about the Feast of Candlemas, where in Catholic tradition, we honour the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple along with the Purification of Mary. In some Christmas traditions, particularly those from the Germanic/Slavic lands of Central, South, East, and North Eastern Europe, this day signals…

St Paul was asked this same question by our Lord when he was on the road to Damascus. Stubborn and hard-heartedly willful, he was ready to forcefully repress the bold and ostentacious moves of God because of his position in the "golden snood" of the-then contemporary religious tradition and zealously proud conventional thought-patterns held high…

This is Christmas! “Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: ‘Never again to war!’; ‘With war everything is lost’. Instil in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps…