Calling All Catholics

I have created a new wiki for the Faith and Reason Friday version of "Calling All Catholics."

It has a web address that is simpler than the old wiki: http://moleski.net/cac

Resources mentioned on the show

  1. Some notes on reincarnation.
  2. The Litany of Catholic Buts (modernists, Protestant Catholics).
  3. A draft on Marian Theology.
  4. Scripture study and thoughts on the Transfiguration.
  5. "The Judas Factor": Jesus has been betrayed in every age by men and women chosen to represent Him.  The sins of priests are a great evil and we need to pray and work to repair the damage they have done, but it is not a new phenomenon.
  6. "The sins of priests": Some reflections on the scandals besetting the Church in our day.
  7. An e-mail interview I did for a Finnish newspaper about the priest scandals in April of 2010.
  8. "Doctors of the Church" in chronological order.
  9. "Why do I hafta go to Church on Sunday?"
  10. "Choosing the right good": How to find and follow God in our lives.
  11. "Galileo: Rude, Arrogant, and Almost Entirely Wrong"

This presentation will be given again at a Christian apologetics group on Sunday, July 18 at 6:30 pm. When I find out the place, I'll post it here.

The animations don't work in these two versions of the slideshow. I'll have to make up a page just for them!

Stay tuned for a new and improved edition Any Day Now.

Handouts on the relationship between Christianity and Islam are on my college website.

Shades of blue

I've spent the last few days (13-15 July 2010) working on this website.  I've overhauled some of the machinery that makes it tick (Apache, PHP, xcache, Joomla 1.6 beta, etc.) and started polishing the chrome (mostly .css work; a touch of PHP).

I want it to be clean and neat, if at all possible, as well as fast and serviceable.

I've been singing some old Air Force tune that used to play around midnight just before the National Anthem and the end of the broadcast day: "They took the blue from the sky and a pretty girl's eye and a touch of old Glory, too, and gave it to the men who proudly wear the U.S. Air Force blue."

I've got some kind of cache system running--not APC.  Ah, it is Xcache.

A brief autobiography

I am a Jesuit priest at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Born in 1952, Allegany, New York. That makes me a "mountain boy." Allegany county and Cattaraugus county are the two northernmost counties of Appalachia, according to the federal government. (I didn't find that out until I was 21!)

Canisius High School, 1970.

Boston College, BA, English, 1973.

Entered the Society of Jesus, 1973.

Fordham University, MA Humanities, 1977.

Regis High School faculty (English and Religion), 1976-1978.

Regis College, Toronto, MDiv, 1981.

Ordained June 13, 1981.

Religious Studies and Theology Department, Canisius College, 1990--present.

The Catholic University of America, PhD, 1991.

Personal Catholicism, The Catholic University of America Press, 2000.

Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Martin X. Moleski, SJ
Canisius College
2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14208

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