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One of the contemporary cultural things that’s hard to fathom at times is preventing people from doing truly good works in deference to an ideology. 

Six Benedictine Sisters celebrate their jubilees.

In political, social, and economic life, there is no “neutral” ground. Good and evil are competing for control of the same institutions (political bodies, corporations, education, the arts, and entertainment) because those institutions matter. We live our lives within them, and they shape the world around us. They can help bring us closer to God or pull us away from him. 

Greetings in the healing, hope, and joy of Jesus! Those powerful words not only serve as a greeting for my reflection, but are held high as the banner proclamation of our Diocese of Duluth! 

On June 20, Essentia Health in Duluth began a new era of patient care in Duluth with the grand opening of its replacement St. Mary’s Medical Center. 

In early August, the Diocese of Duluth is expected to launch a newly designed website at www.dioceseduluth.org.

Why do some people have faith and others don’t? What if I personally don’t feel like I have faith? 

Each year as August rolls around, the debate over the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolls back around with it, and all the more so this year given the release of a major film, “Oppenheimer,” telling the complicated story of one of the main architects of that weapon. (Full disclosure: I don’t go to movies much and haven’t seen it.) 

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” This quotation is from the great English convert, G.K. Chesterton. I think it sums up well what I wish to write about today.

The three great monotheistic faiths are what are commonly referred to as religions of “the book” — that is, people who adhere to texts that they believe to be inspired. For Muslims it is the Koran, for the Jewish people the Torah, and for Christians, of course, it is the Bible.

According to Planned Parenthood, artificial contraception did not become legal until 1965, and when it did, contraception was only available for married women. Before 1965, most women and men considered birth control a great harm and dangerous to women, marriage, and society.