Voices
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
FaithThe Good Word
Are you a Charlie Brown or a Lucy?
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Even if “downtown” only stretched a block, most whistle-stops on the American prairie took great pride in their theaters, their dream palaces. Back in the last century, they would have been the only place a person raised in the heartland would have seen the ocean or a skyscraper, or seen someone like Rhett Butler kiss someone like Scarlett O’Hara. Travel was what poor people did in their imaginations, hence the importance of those dream palaces. If you were desperately poor, you didn’t even need a ticket to dream. You could stand outside and moon over the movie posters.
Faith
Christ and his saints have a different way of calculating a thing’s worth
Faith
Rather than beg God to speak to us, we should ask God to help us to hear what God has already said in Jesus.
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The concept of God is both utterly reasonable yet absolutely unimaginable.
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Our deepest identities are found in our call to service.
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Eyes of faith see things in the world that others insist are just not there.
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Everything that she was, formed who he became.
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Reformers might rail against sacred images, but, at Christmas, the world turns Catholic to gaze upon the Christ child.
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Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.