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Once a month I bring Holy Communion to the Alzheimer unit of a swanky assisted living facility located in the parish.
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BY FATHER JOHN A KILEY
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11/7/08
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A parishioner handed me a slim book entitled “Church History 101.” As the title implies, the brief treatise outlined Catholicism’s 2,000 years in summary fashion: the ancient church, the medieval church, the reformation church, the modern church.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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10/31/08
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When I was a newly ordained priest in 1966, a classmate, Vin Maynard, observed, “Kiley, you preach the same sermon every week: social justice through the liturgy.” The assessment was probably valid.
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FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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10/24/08
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Continued from last week’s column
Unless there is a problem with impotency, a husband is always fertile. Men are capable of engendering children from their teenage years until death.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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10/17/08
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One area of life that would seem to be exempt from the cross, at least in the popular imagination, is sexual relations.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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10/10/08
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A few years ago, maybe 15 years ago, two young men moved into a neighborhood. They replaced a sagging gutter in the front of their home.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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10/3/08
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No one receives a harsher assessment in the New Testament than the religious leaders of Jesus’ generation. Jesus excoriates the pious shepherds of his day labeling them “… brood of vipers … blind guides …whitened sepulchers. …”
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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9/26/08
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Somewhere within his voluminous works, Benedictine Dom Aelred Graham, prior at Portsmouth Priory during the 1950s and 60s, wrote tersely and perceptively, “God’s justice is subordinate to his mercy.”
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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9/19/08
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Every student knows the tragic end of King Louis XVI of France and his Austrian-born wife, Marie Antoinette. The sharp blade of the guillotine made swift work of their necks.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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9/11/08
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The Vatican has approved a new English translation of some of the frequently used prayers of the Mass, prayers that are “common” to most Masses.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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9/5/08
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A few years ago I visited a cousin in Florida. As I sat by her pool, I took advantage of several copies of the Smithsonian Magazine placed on a nearby table.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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8/30/08
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John Newton was an 18th century Anglican clergyman and the author of the immensely popular hymn Amazing Grace.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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8/14/08
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This Sunday’s readings present two men, Elihan and Peter, who find themselves in danger because of their efforts to follow God's will.
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BY PATRICK V. REID, PH. D.
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8/9/08
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One Sunday last spring, St. Francis Parish in Warwick celebrated First Communion at a 12:30 p.m. Sunday Mass, welcomed a newborn with the sacrament of baptism at 2 p.m. and then witnessed Bishop Robert E. Mulvee confirm 22 young people at 5 p.m.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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8/7/08
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“Disturbing teen sex trends reported,” the local press noted recently.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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8/1/08
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A radio commentator made mention recently of “market religion,” an unfamiliar phrase but one that makes perfect sense.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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7/16/08
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A news item told of two homosexual partners from Israel who brought the sperm of one of them to a clinic in India, where the sperm was used to fertilize an egg taken from one woman and then implanted in the womb of another woman.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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7/3/08
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Some time ago, a friend cited a liturgical commentator who pointed out that the post-Vatican II Mass celebrated according to the new rite of Pope Paul VI is not simply a revision of the old Roman Missal, the Tridentine Mass.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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6/27/08
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In his “Milestones,” written as a cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI recalled that liturgical change was not a top priority for the council fathers as they gathered for Vatican II.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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6/19/08
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A local cable-channel preacher was adamant that the presence of Christ in the Eucharist is strictly symbolic. His argument did give the viewer pause.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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6/12/08
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