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A PARADISE OF LIES - Why Do Catholics Leave the Church?
A PARADISE OF LIES - Why Do Catholics Leave the Church?
By Mar Camen
These are short stories of people who may have left the Catholic faith. Each one of them had their strong reasons to do it and when you get to know each one of these characters, you may relate to them. So, the question is: What made them leave their faith? Or stay in their faith despite difficulties? And you, dear reader, why have you not left your Catholic faith?
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Hail Mary
Hail Mary
By George Calleja
Some people might come up with the question, but who is Mary?
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Let Them Eat Steak: Our Unchristian Contempt for the Poor
Let Them Eat Steak: Our Unchristian Contempt for the Poor
By Anthony S. Layne
The story goes that a schnorrer (a Jewish professional beggar) managed to get some money for “eppes to eat” from a fellow on the street. He then turned to the nearest deli, sat down, and ordered a bagel with cream cheese and lox.
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The Day the World Died Supernaturally | Jesus' Tears in the Second Woe
The Day the World Died Supernaturally | Jesus' Tears in the Second Woe
By Scott Pauline
In the article Communism, Fascism | Liberal and Conservative Christianity in the Bible | The Alabaster Jar of Anti-Sacramental Mystery, we saw that the associated Biblical numbers and theology place most ecclesial spiritual disorders in their proper place and with their own anti-Sacramental imagery and theology for take out and beyond.
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POPE CONON, THE HANDSOME POPE
POPE CONON, THE HANDSOME POPE
By Debra Booton McCoy
Conon, or Konon, was a man of Greek or Syrian heritage. His father was a commander in the Byzantine army of the Thracian province. This is now known as Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. The future pope was probably born in Sicily, around 630, when Syracuse was the Empire’s westernmost outpost, a favorable position for an army commander.
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How We Make Church an Idol
How We Make Church an Idol
By Katie Zalany
I realized something about myself over the last few weeks: I made church an idol.
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Three More Weeks
Three More Weeks
By Elizabeth Thomas
Three more weeks of Lent, three more weeks of classes! Have our efforts done any good? In regards to classes, my heart hopes that what was taught over the 21 classes has been heard and has taken root into the spirits and hearts of those young people!
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We are Justified by Faith Alone and Made Righteous
We are Justified by Faith Alone and Made Righteous
By Dan Baca
The title of this article comes from a statement made by a Calvinist who attends a Baptist Reform Church with whom another Catholic apologist and I are holding discussions currently. Additionally, this Calvinist stated that this saying only applies to the Elect (i.e., those predetermined by God to go to Heaven). He thinks I may be a member of the Elect, but he’s not sure.
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Do you see Easter in your Lenten observance?
Do you see Easter in your Lenten observance?
By Troy Kroening
What we give up or possibly add as a Lenten observation often times weighs on us. It can be hard. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or a celebration at the end of the suffering in Easter. If we focus on the suffering, it may seem overwhelming. But what did Jesus do throughout His suffering? He was focused on Easter.
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Why Would God Send Anyone to Hell
Why Would God Send Anyone to Hell
By Lorrie McNickle
I find it curious that so many like to pose the question that I as well struggle with at times. the question is: Why would a loving God sent someone to Hell? I wonder though when confronted with this thought and worry, why do so many choose to jeopardize their salvation by rejecting God’s laws and love?
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Do we think in Abstract Terms as we walk to Calvary?
Do we think in Abstract Terms as we walk to Calvary?
By Ralph Hathaway
During Lent, we envisioned the suffering Jesus underwent on His way to Golgotha. We knelt at each of the 14 stations as He walked the Via Dolorosa, bleeding, living our pain, falling three times under our weight called sin. At the Cross He embraced, our hearts felt heavy.
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Contraception and Homosexual Activity: You Can't Have One without the Other
Contraception and Homosexual Activity: You Can't Have One without the Other
By JP Nunez
We Catholics get a lot of flack for our Church’s teaching on contraception, even from other Christians who stand with us on most disputed moral questions (such as abortion and homosexual activity). Even conservative Orthodox and Protestants usually have no problem with contraception, so on this issue, we stand almost entirely alone against (quite literally) a world of criticism.
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Jesus says, ‘Go, and Sin No More'
Jesus says, ‘Go, and Sin No More'
By Bill Dunn
In the Gospel reading at Mass this weekend, we have another example of God’s overwhelming love and forgiveness: the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. Jesus’ opponents, the scribes and Pharisees, brought an adulterous woman before the Lord, and demanded, “In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So, what do you say?”
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"By the Mystery of this water and wine....humbled Himself to share in our Humanity"
"By the Mystery of this water and wine....humbled Himself to share in our Humanity"
By Ralph Hathaway
“By the mystery of this water and wine……humbled Himself to share in our humanity” During the Holy Mass the deacon, or in his absence the priest, takes the cruets filled with water in one and wine in the other and quietly recites these words as he blends the two elements being careful to only add a drop of water into the chalice with a greater amount of wine as he says the formula.
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Time to Get Back to Basics
Time to Get Back to Basics
By Bill Dunn
Do you ever get the feeling that every aspect of your life has become fast-paced, frantic, and complicated? You don’t? Really? Well, then you’ll have to tell me the secret of your serenity, because these days my life feels like I’m pedaling a bicycle in the middle of the Indianapolis 500. Everything is swirling around me at breakneck speed.
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Living is Aging with Wrinkles
Living is Aging with Wrinkles
By Mar Camen
Like many women, today I saw myself in the mirror, but only like some women, those middle age women, I saw my wrinkles. How long it has been since I could not sit and see my face in front of a mirror. Always running, working, cooking, there is not much time for oneself as a mother and wife, there is only time for the family.
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A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 3
A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 3
By Chick Todd
Aloha nui loa, Omea! May blessing always be with you and may God bless you, Belovéd! Today we pick up on the end of a conversation between two buddies named Frank (F:) and Earnest (E:) with some help from the Narrator (N:). We finished up with the Narrator asking, " (WHAT STOPS US FROM REPENTING?
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