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A very manly Heaven? End of year thoughts

December 31, 2024 catholicfictioncatholicscience1 Comment

I've been thinking about parts of the Divine Comedy recently. My brain circles past various topics over time, checking in and moving on. Without going back to read it, I started thinking about Dante's picture of Paradise. He begins with a scientific discussion about the composition of the moon. (This was a hot topic in [...]

Obituary for a friend from Mass

August 6, 2024 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

... Call me and bid me come to you ... I wrote about that prayer a few weeks ago.** It became important again Sunday. I’m going to a funeral this morning. A lady I’ll call ‘Marion’ died last week. She was ninety-nine years old. Her daughter stopped me in the communion line Sunday morning to [...]