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I was delighted to learn this week that regarding Fr. Rick Thomas, SJ (1928-2006) the U.S. “bishops affirmed their support for the advancement of the cause of beatification and canonization on the diocesan level.” Fr. Rick founded href="...

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Yesterday, I came across a pretty obscure reference in a book by Jim Davila, the most profilic of biblical bloggers to whom I have linked for years. He wrote a commentary on some of the Dead Sea Scrolls entitled Liturgical Works (Eerdmans, 2000). On p. 242, I found this tidbit...

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The Recency Bias of the Internet

One of the great challenges of the Internet is that it came online after so many other wonderful information technologies like the printing press, radio, tape recording, newspapers, magazines, and so on. While much of that material has been “digitized” in so far as it has been scanned and uploaded, so much of it is inaccessible, hard to find, ...

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I have always been curious (pun intended) about sins that take place only in the mind. It is very strange to think that a violation of God’s command could happen within your neurons. In other contexts, I’ve discussed before the interior nature of the sin of cov...

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For anyone who cares to look, the textual history of Tobit is more than a little confusing. For a long time we only had two Greek texts (ok, and a middle-way third Greek), but then we found significant fragments of Tobit in the Dead Sea Scrolls and now we have three languages of record: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Fortunately, scholars have delved deep into all the materi...

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