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Trustworthiness and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
During an interview, a job applicant was asked, “Do you regard yourself as a responsible person?” He replied, “Yes, indeed. My last boss said I was responsible for many things that happened in the office.”
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Dangerous Illusions
By Richard Maffeo
Several decades ago former Beatle John Lennon wrote a song whose lyrics endure to this day. It is a tragic song. And deceptive, even devilish. They encourage the listener to imagine there is no heaven, or hell . . . and by implication, no God, no Jesus, no sin, and no eternal judgment.
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The Truth About Purgatory and Indulgences
By Ken Litchfield
To understand the Catholic teaching on Purgatory and Indulgences first we have to understand how a person is saved. Protestants believe in the imputed righteousness through Jesus’ finished sacrifice on the cross. The Catholic Church also teaches that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross provided sufficient Grace for everyone to be saved.
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Nature's Supernatural Delight
By Linda Kracht
Who would have guessed that a 1972 singles hit composed and performed by King Harvest, a rock band, and an astronaut would both provide support for this article on nature’s SuperNatural Delight? Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest was one of my favorite tunes back in the 70’s. Did any of us get the significance of the lyrics back then?
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Book Review of Cardinal Burke's Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ
By Justin McClain
Before I began reading Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke’s 2016 book Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ – An Interview with Guillaume d’Alançon (published by Ignatius Press), I was uncertain of what precisely to expect. However, I was not uncertain in what could be misconstrued as a “wary” way; rather, I was unsure of both what Cardinal Burke would address and how he would cover it.
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Influence and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
If you’re shopping for a smile, try this one on for size. It’s a ditty I fudged up during one of my more frivolous reverie
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The Ten Commandments Partitioned: Protestant or Catholic Way? Daniel 7 will Help
By Scott Pauline
In Daniel 7, I always wondered the apocalyptic meaning of the ten horns of the fourth beast. Three of them are uprooted and in their place comes up the little horn. It is greater than his other fellows and utters proud boasts and blasphemies, with eyes like a man and a mouth like a man, persecuting the Holy Ones, and thinking to change the "feast days and the Law".
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Sequel to "Are You Ready"?
By Ralph Hathaway
It's been almost 17 months to the day since we were astonished when Fr. Mike came into St. Jude’s on that glorious morning, vested and ready for Mass while we were giving thanks to God for the amazing transformation from a time of disillusionment, fear, and almost hopelessness from enemy forces taking over the United States.
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Why Do I Write?
By Ralph Hathaway
Why Do I Write? This is perhaps a very poignant question since some have inquired about my efforts to put on paper my thoughts pertaining to God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the feeling of an infinity towards expressing what I deem as God’s way of allowing my gifts received at ordination to explore the unknown, yet what is known through God to be expressed by me.
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Baptism The Universal Sacrament
By Ken Litchfield
Baptism is the one thing that unites all Christians, but there are a wide variety of views on Baptism. Some Christian Churches teach that Baptism forgives sins and make you a member of the Body of Christ, His Church. Other churches teach that baptism is just an outward sign of your inward change of heart and that you have decided to be a Christian.
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Dependence and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
A fourth-grader, speaking to his teacher after religion class, observed with considerable precocity, “God’s pretty smart. He put our ears in the right place long before eyeglasses were even invented.”
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A Pain of Loss
By Ralph Hathaway
July 7, 2016 Dallas, Texas, a demonstration that started out peacefully over the two successive police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota. But, peacefulness became shattered by the sound of guns and people running for their lives, while many policemen were running towards the sounds of gunfire and terror.
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Pope Gelasius, 49th Pope
By Debra Booton McCoy
Gelasius, son of Valerius, was a Roman citizen of African descent, very possibly Berber. If he was born in Africa, it would have been before the Vandal takeover in 439, or else he would not have been born a Roman citizen. Gelasius was an ordained priest and acted as secretary for Pope Felix III, writing many of his ecclesiastical documents for him.
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The formula for a beautiful life
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
St. Maximillian Kolbe has become one of my favorite saints, but maybe not for the reasons you would think.
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Yes, God Communes With Infants
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Theoretically, we all readily concede that the Mercy of God is available to everyone, from the richest to the poorest, from the most educated to the illiterate, from adults to small children. Since God is omnipresent, this means everyone on the entire planet is free to commune with Him at the same time because He can be fully present to each soul instantaneously.
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Commitment and Trust
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Mythmakers of ancient England described a monster in the shape of an emaciated cow called “Chichevache” that ate nothing but faithful wives. The British let that bit of lore fade away as silly, but the Irish menfolk, who kept a tight rein on their wives, couldn’t relinquish the myth that provided a bit of long-lived Irish humor. They claimed the old cow finally starved to death.
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The Blood of Christ
By Ralph Hathaway
Is there any other sign that is real like this portrayal in a significant manner from the very Crucifixion of Jesus to his burial that relates so closely to the very essence of His giving Himself for us? None by anyone or entity that has reached down through the centuries and within the Church that brings us so close to God’s plan of complete forgiveness.
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