Spirituality

Fr. Glenn: ‘How Long, O Lord?!’

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

Well, the elephant stomping about the room this week was definitely the dark revelations emerging from Pennsylvania of three hundred Catholic priests, other clergy and seminarians in the abuse of a thousand or more young people over several decades. Just when we Catholics think … hope … pray … that perhaps finally all such horrors have been rooted out so that we and our Church can heal, something else comes out—ripping open the wounds wider than before. 

Victims, of course, suffer most immediately and tragically. It’s

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Fr. Glenn: Keeping The Peace

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

A short addendum to last week’s column in which I sought to expound a bit on Pope Francis’ recent efforts to eliminate the use of the death penalty.

One of my parishioners reminded me of St. Maria Goretti, a young Italian girl who was stabbed resisting sexual assault by an 18-year-old man named Alexander, adamantly stating that she would rather die, believing that to submit would be to sin grievously. She did die the day after, but in finest Christian charity forgave her murderer/attempted rapist on her deathbed, knowing the Read More

Fr. Glenn: Executing Death

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos 

Well, the media was somewhat abuzz with Pope Francis “changing” the teaching of the Catholic Church about the death penalty. It was really kind of a baby-step change, though, and largely due to the development of technology and society … being not so much a change of the teaching as simply a logical next step to what it already has been taught. It is certainly no change in essential Catholic dogma.

After all, why do we have the death penalty? In large part, for punishment/retribution, and for protection of society against

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Scenes From Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church New Co-Pastors Installation Ceremony Sunday

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Congregation, family and friends filled Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church Sunday afternoon for a special installation ceremony of the church’s new co-pastors. Bishop Jim Gonia, Rocky Mountain Synod of ELCA, performs the ceremony of Co-pastors Rev. Scott Thalacker and Rev. Nicole’ Raddu Ferry at the church at 2390 North Road. Pastor Ferry has served as the youth and family pastor at the church and Co-pastor Thalacker recently moved to Los Alamos from Logan, Utah. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Bishop Jim Gonia blesses Co-pastors Rev. Scott Thalacker and Rev. Nicole’ Raddu Read More

Fr. Glenn: Strengthening The Will

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

Thought about writing an article on that beautiful virtue of humility, but while perusing the news Saturday morning, I was battered by several headlines which touched upon another virtue … or lack thereof, really: self-control … and its close relation: self-mastery

The headline was of a television exec accused of decades of abusing women … just the most recent of innumerable instances we read of sexual harassment and abuse. Child molester sent to prison for a decade. Missing children and Amber alerts. Celebrity marriage Read More

Talk On Spiritual Warfare Offered At IHM Aug. 9

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IHM News:

Father Gary Thomas, priest of the Diocese of San Jose and an expert on spiritual warfare, will give a presentation on “Battling Evil in Uncertain Times” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9 in the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Hall at 3700 Canyon Road.

His talk will cover the ways modern society opens the doors to evil and steps that individuals can take to guard against its influence, through active prayer and the loving grace of God.

This talk is open to the public at no charge. Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum: Beyond The Neo-Darwinian Evolution Synthesis Wednesday

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LAF&SF News:

Bob Reinovsky will present the last lecture in the Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum summer series Wednesday. The title of Reinovsky’s talk is “The Future of Humanity”. The theme of the 2018 Summer Series is “Purposeful Evolution”.

We begin addressing the implications for the future of humans of the bio-chemical and molecular-biological processes that we have been studying in the last 5 lectures. We begin by reviewing the concept of Darwinism, the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, and then discuss the meaning of purpose in evolution, distinguishing Read More

Fr. Glenn: Setting Example

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

Sort of keeping on last week’s theme of honor and integrity, we know their importance in the individual life…and in the world. 

It is largely due to the lack of honor and integrity, I think, that our society is becoming such a morass of lawsuits, interminable contracts, etc. The long-honored custom of taking someone at his word or asking to cement a deal by word and handshake, is considered almost laughable in our day … naïve at very least.

Why is that? Why was it that in the past a person’s word was considered gold, and yet now Read More