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THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent, March 11th, 2015<\/p>\n

Liturgical texts here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"spock-original-series-star-trek_Fotor_000.jpg\"<\/a>Courtesy Universal Studios<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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LIKE<\/strong> watching a train wreck in slow-motion, so it is watching\u00a0the death of logic<\/em> in our times (and I’m not speaking of Spock).<\/p>\n

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In what is probably one of the most incisive portraits of our era, Pope Benedict XVI compared our generation to the collapse of the Roman Empire, [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. On the Eve<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>