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By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture, Aug 16, 2021

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington who has also served as a financial administrator in the Diocese of Lincoln. Trained in business and accounting, he also holds a Master of Divinity and a Master’s in moral theology. …

We never quite get over adolescence. We are either too fat or too skinny, and we forever obsess over countless other physical details. (Google ads exploit our bodily insecurities, often with amusing results. The data collectors may correctly determine that a user needs to lose belly fat, for example. But when the ads relentlessly depict senior ladies, and a user is a man, it undermines confidence in the algorithm’s reputation for omniscience.) Let’s be attentive to our health. But there should be limits in our war against the flesh. The way we wage this war reveals our view of our humanity.

We often use clichés in conversation. Their original meanings, however, are often long forgotten. Years ago, when we felt a little depressed, we used to say we have “the blues.” But the cliché grew out of the drug culture when opium users felt “the blues” until their next fix.

Some clichés have even more sinister beginnings.  …

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