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A Benedictine Bishop on Silence in Church

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March 10, 2012

This seems such an obvious need in most of our Churches. Why do we fail to heed this sound advice?

A Benedictine Bishop on Silence in Church

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Pondering Tidbits of Truth - October 11, 2012

October 11, 2012

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Mary Comm “We (the church) have been an unintentional accomplice to the millions of lives lost and to the multiplied millions of lives devastated by abortion. We didn’t want them to abort. We didn’t mean for them to abort. But, because of our lack of knowledge, because of our fear, we have continued to stand by and do nothing. We, God’s hands and feet in this dark and hurting world, have been unintentional, unknowledgeable accomplices, but an accomplice nonetheless.” ( From In Our Midst Ministries, Inc.) Dietrich Bonhoeffer “In New York,...

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