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Holy wear and tear. Our lives are full of holy wear and tear. Sometimes we resent that wear and tear.

Within this Triune Christian Godhead are these three co-equal persons, each one dwelling in the other by virtue of an unceasing movement of mutual love. Yet, they stay mystically undivided.

Great question dear reader, and one I had to deal with in the abstract myself long ago at the start of my marriage of 30 years.

The natural world doesn't have morality. Just as the iceberg the Titanic slammed into had no intention to cause trouble for the ocean liner's passengers, no matter how creepy it may seem to us (as beings capable of moral perception and reasoning) a parasitical wasp injecting its young to feed on a paralyzed host grub isn't doing "good" or "evil" in that action, it's just being a wasp, no more conscious of its actions that your toaster browning an English muffin.

While anyone, Catholic or not, are permitted and encouraged to attend Mass as often as they like, non-Catholic Christians are not permitted to receive the Eucharist under nearly every circumstance, and non-Christians are not permitted to receive at all.

This past August’s column, in which I reassured a reader that masturbation isn’t a sin, has generated as many and as lively responses as anything that I’ve written for SpokaneFAVs.