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Father Esposito: The wonder of knowing as we are known

Friday, March 29, 20190266 I recall playing with my nephew Lucas, who was roughly 2 years old at the time. I held up a mirror to him, and asked him whose picture he saw in the mirror. He shouted,...

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Father Esposito: Spiritual direction lessons on time with St. Augustine

Friday, March 1, 20190699 By Father Thomas Esposito Special to The Texas Catholic My first years as a priest and spiritual director have taught me that many people do not love themselves...

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Father Bayer: Relics belong to our humanity and richness of Gospel

Thursday, February 14, 20190640 A few weeks ago, Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Farmers Branch hosted “Treasures of the Church,” a traveling exhibition of sacred relics from the Vatican. By all...

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Father Esposito: Loving with the guts of God

Friday, February 1, 20190358 God does not experience or suffer emotions as we do. Theologians rightly point out that the divine essence, so utterly transcendent, not limited by bodily form, cannot...

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Father Bayer: In Defense of Nature

Wednesday, January 16, 20190258 Do you want a great book for our ideological times? Do you want to be challenged, no matter where you sit on the ideological spectrum between Left and Right? Well, then...

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Father Esposito: The Divine Philanthropy at Christmas

Thursday, December 27, 20180451 An elderly priest recounted to me a conversation he once had with a devout Muslim. The primary topic of their friendly dialogue was the identity of Jesus. When the...

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Father Bayer: Support of Priests

Friday, December 14, 20180208 By Father John Bayer Special to The Texas Catholic In the span of about two weeks I received 15 cards encouraging me as a priest. One person, who signed herself...

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Father Esposito: ‘Humanae Vitae’ and its Joyful Prophets

Thursday, November 15, 20180320 Humanae Vitae is not an elegant treatise on the Church’s traditional teaching against artificial contraception. It lacks the philosophical brilliance of Pope John Paul...

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