St Ignatius Touches An Old Truth
June 24, 2020
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St. Ignatius Loyola, a Jesuit priest, is credited with saying, “Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life.” Growing up as a Catholic, I believed Loyola until I turned eleven. That was the year I left the Church to listen to the sound of my own drummer. St
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March 02, 2017
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Replacing Anton Scalia on the U. S. Supreme Court is going set off some sparks. As a conservative, he dismissed the notion of a living constitution and believed that idea risked warping original intent. (Click) I understand the intellectual purity of his position but what has th
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