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  • Gates of the Altar, Hail!

    I shall walk in blue all the days of my life even if all desert me.    It had not taken long to reach the church; a car ride of several hours along the eastern seaboard of the United States, the shores of the ocean just out of reach. As the car cut through the morning fog, the children texted…

  • Rebuilding Notre-Dame

    This week, we witnessed the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the most recognizable, and beloved, Roman Catholic cathedrals in the world. There is now talk of its restoration; which is all lovely and quite good, as long as it is remembered what Notre-Dame is: it is a Roman Catholic church. It is not an inter-denominational history museum. It…