Sunday, November 28, 2010

Religious Vocations

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In all of East Texas there are perhaps ten men who have not been called to the Christian ministry, a record matched only in certain counties...

Black Friday -- News from the Front

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Black Friday – News from the Front Once upon a time holidays did not feature casualty lists or after-action rep...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Infallibility of Catholic Bloggers

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Not even the most ego-driven Bishop of Rome in the Church's 2,000 year history ever claimed the all-encompassing infallibility of a too-...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails Beaumont, Texas has an unused jail sitting in the middle of downtown, and n...

"The Vatican says..."

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Any statement beginning with "The Vatican says..." is almost surely a thumping lie. The Vatican is a city-state; it doesn't s...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, V...

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, Viet-Nam...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Cleopatra in Rome

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Cleopatra in Rome In 46 B.C. Cleopatra and her entourage of sycophants and slaves journeyed to Rome to make obe...

Education for the 21st Century

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Bubbles. #2 pencils. Bubbles. #2 pencils. If the greatest challenge to American youth is a blank bubble that needs shading with a #2 pen...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's in Your Calendar?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com What’s in Your Calendar? Ipops and Blueberries are not a part of my life; small electronic gadgets look at me,...

Stalin's Office

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Did Stalin's office staff play "Secret Santa?"
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Coffee, Tea, or Justice?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Coffee, Tea, or Justice? Even though my favorite waitress owns her little café’ I always tip her anyway – I kno...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Prophet's New Car

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Prophet’s New Car A Florida pastor has demanded that a New Jersey car dealer give him a new car for not bur...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Red Menace

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I'm especially proud of the loopy run-on sentence in the third-to-last paragraph. It's not "Who's on First" but, by g...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Love and the Ascending Aorta

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Love and the Ascending Aorta The other day I saw some pink ladies advertising along a street. They were waving...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Saturday Morning in the Bookstore

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Saturday Morning in the Bookstore Why are there now so many books of lists of ten things we must do before we d...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Guitars

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Guitars -- for those special fireside evenings when ordinary kindling just won't do.
Sunday, September 19, 2010

For a Football Player Dying Young

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com In the Light All of us must die; few of us are permitted to die while doing exactly what we should be doing. Th...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Door Prizes at the Last Supper

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Door Prizes at the Last Supper This year a church (let us call it St. Waycool’s) in a certain university town w...

The Green Martyrdom

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One wonders if any martyr tortured to death ever cried as loudly as does a certain bishop who does not receive the veneration and money he f...