by Scott Phillips | Feb 23, 2016 | About
Need or Greed ... With Pope Francis dedicating his last encyclical, Laudato Si’, to ecology there has been increased attention on the environment these past few months. In thinking through these issues recently I was reminded of the 1999 hit movie, The Matrix, when...
by Scott Phillips | Feb 19, 2016 | About
Care for your Body as if You Will Live Forever ... Since the early years of Christian education we have recognized seven vices or “cardinal sins” including: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, slothfulness, and gluttony. Often we hear homilies concerning pride or lust,...
by Scott Phillips | Feb 16, 2016 | About
Receive the World as God's Gift ... Under Napoleon’s reign in 1804 the pedestrian bridge known as the “Pont des Arts” was completed across the River Seine. The bridge of nine arches was the first metallic bridge in Paris. The bridge engineers conceived that the bridge...
by Scott Phillips | Feb 11, 2016 | About
Great Leaders Recognize Talent ... In 2005, award-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin published the book, “Team of Rivals.” Her subtitle for the book was “The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.” This is a book that St. Francis students will be familiar with by the...
by Scott Phillips | Feb 9, 2016 | About
Jesus in Disguise ... Taken on its own, 1 Corinthians 12:15, seems like an odd verse: “If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ that would not make it any less a part of the body.” But taken in context with earlier and later...
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