our every encounter leads someone toward beatitude or away from it

May 27, 2026
Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV’s letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of AI

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May 25, 2026
on the passage through life

If someone approaches me today and asks, “So how does it feel to be a year older?” I think I will respond, “The real question is: how does it feel to be a year closer to the life to come?”

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May 23, 2026
in memory of Uncle John

In March of 1944, a B-24 bomber was shot down over Hansa Bay, New Guinea. My uncle, John W Emmer, Jr, was on board as aerial photographer.

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May 20, 2026
a church for our children, or no church at all?

a younger version of myself confronts pre-synodal synodality in a suburban parish

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May 13, 2026
the message of Fatima

“Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed. Fatima does not satisfy our curiosity in this way, just as Christian faith in general cannot be reduced to an object of mere curiosity.”

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April 28, 2026
Susan Lea, rest in peace

On Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026, Susan Lea Whittaker, age 75, suddenly collapsed and then died in the arms of a homeless man in Southern California. She had been homeless for ten years herself

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April 26, 2026
happy birthday, Uncle Palmer

Today is the birthday of Uncle Palmer, my mom’s only brother. I recently came across the eulogy his oldest son delivered at his funeral in December of 2010.

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April 23, 2026
friendship

In this paper, I examine recurring concepts about friendship that appear in the writings of Western thinkers, in order to ask the question: What, essentially, is friendship?

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April 17, 2026
rest in peace, Mom & Dad

On April 17, 2014, the ashes of my mom and dad were laid to rest in a common grave just across the street from the home on Christmas Lake where they raised all ten of us.

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April 12, 2026
Divine Mercy Sunday

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, a time to remember in a special way the message of our Lord to St. Faustina Kowalska, a simple nun from Krakow in early part of the 20th century.

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