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Father Bayer: Listening at the Dallas Synod

Friday, May 20, 2022078 Plans are well underway for the 2024 Synod — that big meeting to advise the bishop about the spiritual, material and administrative situation of the Dallas Diocese....

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Father Esposito: Mary, mother of every beloved disciple

Thursday, May 5, 20220221 Mary is never named in the Gospel of John. In the only scenes featuring her, the beloved disciple refers to her simply as “the mother of Jesus.” Those two episodes...

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Father Bayer: Faith in Medicine

Monday, April 25, 20220145 Our world needs Christian faith. A book that proved this to me regarding the medical field is Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental...

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Father Esposito: The plea of an atheist for biblical beauty

Thursday, April 7, 20220161 The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, declared in a book of prose that “the Scriptures constitute the common good of...

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Father Bayer: Wilderness and the Dynamics of Conversion

Monday, March 28, 2022019 This Lent I’m studying the “wilderness” or “desert” in Scripture, and especially in the journey of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. The dangerous wild...

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Father Esposito: Exile and home in the human condition

Sunday, March 13, 20220505 A curious pattern of exile is evident in the endings of several Old Testament books. After God promises Abram the land of Canaan, the patriarch must immediately flee to...

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Father Esposito: The expanding heart that casts out fear

Tuesday, February 15, 20220403 St. Benedict concludes the Prologue of his Rule for monks with an uplifting exhortation: “Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads...

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Father Bayer: Renewing the joyful gift of Catholic schools

Saturday, February 5, 20220221 Catholic Schools Week (Jan. 30 to Feb. 5 this year) is a time to reflect on the gift of Catholic education and to support the many men and women who work so hard to...

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Father Esposito: Awaken the sleeping Lord in your boat!

Sunday, January 16, 20220309 By Father Thomas Esposito Special to The Texas Catholic Near the end of March 2020, the peoples of virtually all nations were enduring the first of many months...

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Father Esposito: Mortality and weakness: A Father’s Day meditation