Author: Josh McDonald

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Sometimes You Can Go Home Again

I returned to Maine recently to visit with family. So on Sunday, before heading home to Vermont, I returned to the church that had been my home parish, off and on, for many years....

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On Comics and Catholicism

A new online magazine has just launched. Voyage Comics is focused on comics and popular media, approaching it from a Catholic perspective. So of course I had to write something for their inaugural issue....

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Book Review: The Saint and the Sultan

The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace by Paul Moses My rating: 4 of 5 stars The basic story is well-established in the biography of Saint...

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To Know Her is to Love Her

Wisdom seems to be in rather short supply these days. I think one reason I’ve found myself so drawn to my theology studies is that it offers a wider view of things. At a...

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Can’t Buy Me Love

Is money a form of idolatry? This past Sunday, listening to the Gospel reading in which Jesus speaks of the lawfulness of paying taxes, I had one of those quick and fleeting drive-by thoughts....

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Strange New Worlds

What does Catholic teaching tell us about extraterrestrial life? This might not seem like the most pressing of theological questions, but here I must admit to being a complete and unabashed science-fiction nerd. So...