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Cabin Fever: The Truth Shines Forth Radiant in Quiet Solitude

Cabin Fever: The Truth Shines Forth Radiant In Quiet Solitude

April 25, 2020

Among logical fallacies, the argument from authority, “argumentum ad verecundiam,” means accepting a proposition because its source is authoritative, even though the matter is outside that source’s competence. Such a fallacy, for instance, might approve Einstein’s view on politics or religion because he was such an important physicist. However, precisely because of his inventiveness, it is not fallacious to accept...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Supernatural combat, Mantle of Victory and the Weight of Glory

Supernatural Combat, Mantle Of Victory And The Weight Of Glory

April 15, 2020

Normally each Easter, the Resurrection Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom replaces my regular column, with his paraphrase of Saint Paul’s “Death, where is thy sting? Grave where is thy victory?” (Corinthians 15:55). But these are not normal times. Their abnormality includes my own difficulty in not preaching the Three Hours on Good Friday for the first time in fifty years....

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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BOOK REVIEW: Responding to the Universal Call of Grace – riveting journey from Islam to Catholicism

Book Review: Responding To The Universal Call Of Grace – Riveting Journey From Islam To Catholicism

April 14, 2020

While attending the Napa Institute, I asked Ignatius Press’ Tony Ryan for his recommendation on a good book to read. Tony immediately told me, “From Fire by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith,” which was one of Ignatius’ bestsellers. I got a copy and found that Tony was right on the money. This is a very well written memoir...

Thomas M. Loarie

(CEO, Bryologyx)

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Now the Passion will be more powerful with the gates of the Temple closed

Now The Passion Will Be More Powerful With The Gates Of The Temple Closed

April 4, 2020

The term “parochial” is frequently used in a condescending sense, but no one today can get away with thinking that to be parochial is to be isolated from reality. As I write, the Navy hospital ship “Comfort,” last seen here on the Hudson River after the World Trade Center horror, is passing by our rectory windows. The convention center nearby,...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Coronavirus – Be Not Afraid – With God All Things Are Possible

Coronavirus – Be Not Afraid – With God All Things Are Possible

March 31, 2020

I could never have fathomed all the things that have happened in our country during March 2020. I must admit that particularly over the last two weeks, I have been in somewhat of a “funk” because of the Coronavirus pandemic and all the uncertainty surrounding it. The news cycles on TV have been bad for some time, but even worse...

Tim Von Dohlen

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Bon Courage: True Hope conquers Fear

Bon Courage: True Hope Conquers Fear

March 30, 2020

I have a rule never to begin a paragraph with a first-person pronoun. I do this not because it would be inappropriate to use the monarchical “We,” as in “We have a rule,” or the princely “One,” as in “One has a rule,” but because self-reference confines the argument to personal experience. That is somewhat like the danger of using...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Upstream Thinking and Getting Ahead of the Coronavirus

Upstream Thinking And Getting Ahead Of The Coronavirus

March 22, 2020

Review of Upstream: The quest to solve problems before they happen, by Dan Heath — As the coronavirus crisis (COVID 19) subsides, there will be many dissecting our failure to anticipate and prepare for it, despite warnings that a pandemic was not a question of “if” but “when.” There will also be many who, with hindsight, will be dissecting how...

Thomas M. Loarie

(CEO, Bryologyx)

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Perspective amid COVID19

Perspective Amid Covid19

March 22, 2020

Geniuses often are thought to be absent-minded. Archimedes was so preoccupied with a mathematical diagram he was constructing during the invasion of Syracuse in Sicily in 212 BC, that he told a Roman soldier about to slay him: “Let me finish my numbers.” He was not professorially absent-minded, but present-minded. His obligation to truth took precedence over life itself.    In...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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A Practical Formula for Happiness

A Practical Formula For Happiness

March 14, 2020

On September 10, 1919, General Pershing led his returning troops up Fifth Avenue before crowds numbering two million. In front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, he dismounted from his rambunctious white horse “Captain” to greet Cardinal Mercier, who had arrived in New York by ship the night before. The General made a point of expressing his esteem for the Belgian prelate....

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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The Seductions of Socialism: The Church’s consistent response through the ages

The Seductions Of Socialism: The Church’s Consistent Response Through The Ages

March 9, 2020

Materialism, fantasy and false worship were the temptations Satan thrust at Christ, and he is tempting our nation the same way. These seductions are a formula for Socialism, which Winston Churchill in 1948 defined as “The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”    A poorly educated generation succumbs to adolescent idealism, bereft of history, unaware...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Medical Science: What Politicians, the Media and For-Profit Marijuana Advocates Do Not Tell You About Pot Use

Medical Science: What Politicians, The Media And For-profit Marijuana Advocates Do Not Tell You About Pot Use

March 4, 2020

A Review of Alex Berenson’s “Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence” Over the past 35 years we have seen a sea-change in attitudes on recreational marijuana drug use. According to Pew Research an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (91%) say marijuana should be legal either for medical or recreational use (59%), reflecting a steady increase...

Thomas M. Loarie

(CEO, Bryologyx)

View Articles Thomas M. Loarie is a popular host of The Mentors Radio Show, the founder and CEO of BryoLogyx Inc. (BryoLogyx.com), and a seasoned corporate...

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The Catholic Church is Practical, extremely useful for surviving in a fallen world

The Catholic Church Is Practical, Extremely Useful For Surviving In A Fallen World

March 2, 2020

Ernest preachers use their personalities to lead people to Jesus without obstructing him with themselves. They may honestly boast that they have been given the best information to convey, and we have it in the form of what we call the Bible—that is, the Biblia, or Books.  At the start of Lent, our Lord makes us privy to the forty...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Ash Wednesday and the promise of a life more audacious than you could ever imagine

Ash Wednesday And The Promise Of A Life More Audacious Than You Could Ever Imagine

February 25, 2020

I used to dread Ash Wednesday because of the endless lines of people coming for ashes. By the end of the day, priests look like coal miners.    Sociologists may condescendingly consider the phenomenon of crowds coming for ashes, when they do not enter a church at other times of the year, a habit of tribal identity. If the mystery of...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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My Opinion – Your Vote – America’s Future 2020

My Opinion – Your Vote – America’s Future 2020

February 23, 2020

In case you haven’t noticed, we are in a big year for Texas and national politics – it’s election season. Here are some questions to ponder:   How can I best know for whom to vote?  As a Catholic, are there some voting guidelines we can follow?  What authority do Church leaders have regarding politics and voting? Here’s another question...

Tim Von Dohlen

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The Silent Witness of Martyrs speaks volumes about what really matters, what opens our human hearts to true joy

The Silent Witness Of Martyrs Speaks Volumes About What Really Matters, What Opens Our Human Hearts To True Joy

February 18, 2020

The names of the Franciscan friars Berard of Carbio, Otho, Peter, Accursius and Adjutus, are not as familiar as that of Francis of Assisi, who said that they had become the prototypes of what he called the Friars Minor. After his own failed mission to convert the Muslims of Egypt during the Fifth Crusade in 1219, he sent them on a...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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God Often Comes to us in Obscurity, but will we recognize him?

God Often Comes To Us In Obscurity, But Will We Recognize Him?

February 13, 2020

Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists because he paints pictures with words. In describing the scene of old Simeon in the Temple encountering Jesus, Luke wrote that he “took him up in his arms” (Luke 2:28). That word picture of an old man holding a forty-day-old baby, reminds one of the 1490 painting by the master Domenico...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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Super Bowl, Nike and the Song of Saints

Super Bowl, Nike And The Song Of Saints

February 4, 2020

The Feast of the Presentation recalls the old man Simeon chanting thanks for having lived to see the Messiah. His “Nunc Dimittis”—“Let thy servant depart in peace”—is part of the Church’s evening prayers. In 542 in Constantinople, the Emperor Justinian placed it into the Eastern Liturgy.  This year the Feast fell on Super Bowl Sunday. Human nature instinctively finds entertainment...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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The Remarkable Power of Silence

The Remarkable Power Of Silence

January 27, 2020

Precisely one year ago in the Italian town of Cremona, there was an imposed silence by order of the local government for eight hours a day, six days of the week for five straight weeks. The purpose was to allow the pristine recording by highly technical equipment of sounds played on the 1700 Antonio Stradivari “Stauffer” cello, the 1727 Antonio...

Fr. George Rutler

(Pastor of St. Michael's Church)

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