Can you still say the Pledge of Allegiance Can you recall the wording of the Boy Scout Oath or the Girl Scout Can you recite an Act of Contrition Whether we understood it at the time in childhood we committed these avowals to memory as a way of preparing for adulthood The Pledge of Allegiance r

In the first entry in the 1 Thessalonians Bible Junkies Commentary I began by looking at introductory matters which were comprised of comments on the nature of a Greco-Roman letter and the background of Paul rsquo s activity in Thessalonica that we know primarily from Acts of the Apostles and par

Grandma you want to play Mass quot quot Play Mass How do you play Mass quot I hated to think this about my own Grandma Klein especially as she was staying several days with us that summer but she was a little slow She wasn rsquo t good at playing Candy Land and in summer who wanted to pl

In January 2012 I began blogging a commentary on the Gospel of Mark available at the Bible Junkies blog and now at America Magazine which I completed in March 2013 From March to May 2013 I blogged a commentary on the Letter of Jude and links to each entry are available here My somewhat ambitio

In two recent articles in Forbes Magazine Mr Jerry Bowyer has taken Pope Francis to task not for his economics as such but for supporting his ldquo lefty rdquo economics Bowyer rsquo s word not mine with bad biblical exegesis His first article March 13 2013 IsJorge Bergoglio The New Pope

All Saints Day 1950 was properly joyful in Korea U S Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun celebrated four field Masses that day for the soldiers in the Third Battalion of the Eighth Calvary Regiment Camped almost on the Chinese boarder the men believed the war all but won All Souls is a somber da