Posts by Father Thomas Dowd
Fr. Thomas Dowd is a Roman Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Montreal, Canada. He works in the diocesan curia as an associate director for the Office of Pastoral Personnel, and also teaches theology at Concordia University and the Grand Seminary of Montreal. He has been working with the Internet since 1994, and was the very first Canadian priest-blogger.
Created on August 14th, 2008
A recent move to a new server had a few hiccups, but it seems the Adventus blogs are back on track! Thanks for your patience!
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Created on July 14th, 2008
A new page has been added to the list of available pages in our right-hand sidebar: it contains a set of audio files derived from a talk I gave on the sacrament of confession some time ago. I hope it will be useful!
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Created on June 28th, 2008
Just what does the Catholic Church think of the theory of evolution? To be honest, it depends on which theory of evolution we mean. More than that, it depends on what we believe about the explanatory power of the theory. There are some who seem to treat the “theory of evolution” more […]
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Created on June 24th, 2008
Click on the image to be taken to the website of the National Catholic Bioethics Centre, where you can find a lot of resources regarding the position of the Church on bioethics issues.
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Created on June 24th, 2008
A reader wrote in to let us know of the following:
Father Tom, would you be able to put a link on Adventus and 2000 Stories to the Alpha Canada Website ?
An important Quebec-wide Alpha bilingual conference will be offered at Becket (and the adjoining school) Friday August 15 and Saturday August 16, 2008. Monseigneur Gilles […]
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Created on May 17th, 2008
From a faithful reader:
Since Easter is the celebration of the Crucifixion & Resurrection of Christ which took place during Passover why do we not celebrate it at the same time as the celebration of Passover? When did the change take place and why?
First, a bit of background. The feast of Passover, in the Jewish […]
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Created on May 17th, 2008
A friend writes:
I have a question that I hope you can answer for me or maybe give me some direction on. How do you keep focused when praying. I know this may sound odd, but I often experience my mind drifting from one thought to another while saying my nightly prayers. The harder I try […]
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Created on April 29th, 2008
Despite the many evils that circulate on the Internet, I firmly believe that it can also be a powerful tool for good. The Kiva website is an example of what I mean.
Kiva is an example of micro-financial lending, in which participants like you and me don’t *give* money so much as *lend* it to […]
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Created on April 28th, 2008
The big headline across the new lately is the dramatic rise in global food prices. This issue touches me in a special way, because in college I once did a paper studying starvation economics, i.e. how “standard” economics changes when food availability reaches critical levels. It isn’t pretty, and experience shows that one […]
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Created on March 25th, 2008
Just so Adventus readers know, I’m off on retreat for a week. I’ll be back to continue our lively debates on April 1. Happy Easter, and God bless!
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