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Grace vs. Probation Purgatory

Consider for a moment the way our court system handles criminal justice. The accused stands before a judge. His defense pleads his case, while the prosecution outlines the evidence for his guilt. If found guilty, and then sentenced to jail, the convicted person often has a period of probation that sometimes follows an early parole release.

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Fetal Pain & Pleasure

Pain, however, is not a thing by itself, but the negative end of a spectrum ranging from pain to pleasure. The argument that a human fetus experiences pain needs also to say something about fetal pleasure. Why do we find unborn children sucking their thumbs, for example? Why do they have periods of rest and then periods of kicking and twirling about in utero, which we also see in children laughing and playing and rolling about on a playground?

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Communion Reflections

And Mary told him, “They have no wine.” Jesus replied, “Woman my time has not come.” What a curious response. At first blush it even appears disrespectful. I so wonder what Mary understood that we don’t? His first miracle of turning water into wine, occurs after...