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Posts tagged with "Father John Bayer"

Father Bayer: Unity and diversity under God Columnists

Father Bayer: Unity and diversity under God

Monday, November 18, 2019099 People today are deeply affected by the challenges of unity and diversity, especially the younger generations. These challenges are a chance for the Gospel to show its power. For some people, our society’s affirmation of diversity must be so uncompromising that truth and unity, and therefore community, become acceptable losses. I...
Father John Bayer: Canonization of a saint for all Christians Columnists

Father John Bayer: Canonization of a saint for all Christians

Saturday, October 19, 2019073 St. John Henry Cardinal Newman is an ecumenical saint: that is, he is a saint who in a sense belongs to all Christians, inasmuch as his eventual conversion to Catholicism was preceded by other conversions to other Christian traditions, all of which can be seen as representing a progressively deeper discovery of the Gospel. Before...
Father Bayer: Contraception in Scientific American Columnists

Father Bayer: Contraception in Scientific American

Saturday, September 21, 20190192 I was pleasantly surprised earlier this summer when I saw confirmed in the prestigious journal Scientific American (May 2019) something I had often heard from some Catholics: namely, the hormonal contraceptives that our society offers millions of women have a rather dubious origin and an even more questionable future.
Father Bayer: Signs of Science Columnists

Father Bayer: Signs of Science

Friday, September 6, 2019033 Recently, I accompanied some really awesome students to John Bunker Sands Wetlands Center, which is a beautiful water treatment facility and nature preserve southeast of Dallas. We listened to interesting presentations from the naturalists who care for the site, and then we tested the water quality. One of the tests was for turbidity, or...
Father Bayer: In debate of ideologies, open dialogue needed Columnists

Father Bayer: In debate of ideologies, open dialogue needed

Thursday, August 22, 2019046 By Father John Bayer Special to The Texas Catholic One of the more disappointing things I read in the news recently was that Amazon decided, in response to a petition from LGBTQ activists, to stop selling books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a Catholic psychologist who promoted “reparative therapy” for those trying to reshape homosexual...
Father Bayer: Understanding celibacy and marriage in the church Columnists

Father Bayer: Understanding celibacy and marriage in the church

Friday, June 14, 2019021 In a culture so saturated with sexuality as our own, among the most provocative lines of the Gospel is surely the following: some “have renounced marriage for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (19:12).
Father Bayer: Fides et Ratio, St. John Paul II on faith and reason Columnists

Father Bayer: Fides et Ratio, St. John Paul II on faith and reason

Tuesday, May 14, 2019015 Recently, we read a gospel passage that can make people cringe: the story of “doubting”Thomas (cf. Jn 20:19-31). This passage is, sadly, often interpreted as though it were contrasting reason, on the one hand, with faith (or gullibility), on the other. For example, one very influential atheist, Richard Dawkins, refers to the story of...
Father Bayer: Forgiveness Columnists

Father Bayer: Forgiveness

Thursday, April 11, 20190178 What does it mean to forgive? Is forgiveness essentially a negative and cancelling force, that is, something that ignores an injury? Or is it a positive and creative force, that is, something that adds to life? I think it’s probably both, but my sense is that we typically think only of the negative side. For example, it is popular to...
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Father Bayer: Memory matters

How many words, songs and rhymes are stored in your memory? If I say, “Take me out to the…” or “Oops I…” you could probably finish the two lines (“Take me out to the ballgame” and “Oops I did it again”). We have an immense world of words filling our interior lives, and many of them we made little effort to memorize....
Father Bayer: Relics belong to our humanity and richness of Gospel Columnists

Father Bayer: Relics belong to our humanity and richness of Gospel

Thursday, February 14, 2019086 A few weeks ago, Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Farmers Branch hosted “Treasures of the Church,” a traveling exhibition of sacred relics from the Vatican. By all appearances, it was a wonderful event.
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