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Can tattoos be sacramentals?

June 23, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

When Ray Bradbury published “The Illustrated Man” in 1951, tattoos covering virtually whole bodies were not as commonplace as they are today. Bradbury’s science fiction collection used as its starter a character whose body had […]

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Jews and the Old Testament

June 13, 2017 Father Jeffrey Kirby | The Catholic Miscellany

Q: Do Jewish people call the first part of the Bible the Old Testament?  (Charlotte, NC) A: I’m very grateful to receive this question. Oftentimes, unintentionally, Christians can offend their Jewish neighbors by saying that […]

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A saint’s legacy and lives that matter

June 7, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

“Was  it about educating them for a better life, or was it more about saving their lives?” asked a woman at the lunch table set up in the lobby of the church on the corner […]

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Was Mary ever-virgin?

May 11, 2017 Father Jeffrey Kirby | The Catholic Miscellany

Q: Why is the Catholic Church competing with other religions in turning the Mass into a Broadway musical performance where everything is sung? (Columbia, SC) A: Well, truth be told: if we were shooting for […]

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The diocese has its titans

May 10, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Anyone who has toured or lived in New York City will recall its bulky bronze sculpture of Atlas holding up the world. It occupies the gateway to Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue, on the other […]

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Why only four Gospels?

April 27, 2017 Father Jeffrey Kirby | The Catholic Miscellany

Q: There are only four Gospels in the New Testament, but others were written. Why don’t we have the other gospels in the New Testament? (Hilton Head, SC) A: I’d like to answer your ques­tion […]

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When faith and its practice look promising

April 26, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

We look around our neighbor­hoods on Sunday mornings and see few signs of church-going. Then we read the reports about all the “nones,” those with no religious preference. The At­lantic reports that nearly a third […]

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Selling blessed objects

April 12, 2017 Father Jeffrey Kirby | The Catholic Miscellany

Q: I always thought that blessed items could not be sold. I was recently in a Catholic store in Rome and was told that everything in the store was blessed by the pope. Is that […]

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Why on Earth do we have anti-Semitism?

April 12, 2017 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Consider a series of names: Benjamin Disraeli and Golda Meir, Albert Einstein and Gerty Cori, Marc Chagall and Judy Chicago, Anne Frank and Chaim Potok, Beverly Sills and Itzhak Perlman. These are, respectively, noted political […]

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What is the role of deacons?

April 4, 2017 Father Jeffrey Kirby | The Catholic Miscellany

Q: How do we really know there is such a place as purgatory? It doesn’t make sense to me. How do we know it’s true? (Hilton Head, SC) A: With all aspects of the afterlife, […]

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