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Pascal was exemplar of evangelization for modern age, says pope
The French thinker, who made breakthroughs in probability theory and physics — the international unit for pressure is named after him — experienced a religious conversion at the age of 31; his most celebrated philosophical work “Pensées” (Thoughts) was published posthumously and intended to be a defense of Christianity.
Pope Francis said Pascal’s unwavering commitments to both faith and reason demonstrate the need for Christians today to “avoid the temptation to present our faith as an incontestable certainty evident to everyone.”
Rather, the philosopher’s “confidence in the use of natural reason, which unites him to all seekers of truth, enabled him both to acknowledge its limits and to be receptive to the supernatural reasons of divine revelation,” the pope wrote.
Pascal understood his faith to be fully compatible with reason and attempted to share his
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(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser May 2013)
“Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet.” Will Holt
Lemon trees growing near the kitchen. What a wonderful idea. So we chose the perfect spots on the south side of the house for two goodly Meyers, the warmest and sunniest place on our property, only to discover that one of those perfect spots was home to the root mass, still very much alive, of a gargantuan shrub I removed nine months ago. Thus a Herculean task awaited me, one I would postpone until I brought the lemon trees home and their presence inspired me to extricate the massive tangle.
And so on a sunny Saturday, homeward bound after pruning a gorgeous green-leafed Japanese maple, a crab apple, and a plum, I stopped at the admirable Hare Creek Nursery on the south side of Fort Bragg and bought two little Meyer lemon trees. The friendly folks there cautioned me not to plant the lemon trees in the ground, but to gro
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