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Responses to liberals – Part 2
Responses to liberals – Part 2
By Paul Couturier
It’s been far-left-wing liberals who’ve taken legitimate Church practices and taken them far beyond what is prescribed in Church Law, taking advantage of vaguely written rubrics, administrative procedures, and guidelines, and twisting them to suit their own agendas.
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Taking the Mass for granted
Taking the Mass for granted
By Charlie Johnston
Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy. Such participation by the Christian people as "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people (1 Pet. 2:9; cf. 2:4-5), is their right and duty by reason of their baptism.
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God is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow
God is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow
By De Maria
In the New Testament, God established one Holy Catholic Church in the Christian religion, through the mediation of Jesus Christ. This religion also has a ministerial priesthood and a common priesthood. An altar and a sacrificial system. Succession of authority through the Bishopric (i.e. High Priest). And, since this religion fulfilled the Jewish religion, it is now the one True Religion in the
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I saw you!
I saw you!
By Casey Phillips
As a teacher in a Catholic school, you assume that your students are pretty familiar with things like seeing their teachers at Mass, hearing them talk about the faith regularly, or simply seeing them live out their Christianity on a daily basis. For better or for worse, it becomes routine.
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Responses to liberals - Part 1
Responses to liberals - Part 1
By Paul Couturier
Recently, I wrote two posts chastising far-right-wing conservative Catholics who obsess over valid Church practices in place for many years now. They claim these valid practices will bring nothing but doom and gloom to the Church! However, these two posts are addressed to the far-left-wing liberals in the Church; trust me, I haven’t forgotten about you!
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Blessed Josephine Viannini and the Rogue Yak
Blessed Josephine Viannini and the Rogue Yak
By Christy Breedlove
Blessed Josephine Viannini was a late 19th century religious from Italy who was asked by Blessed Louis Tezza to form an order to help care for the sick that were unable to pay for care. Well, as any good servant of God would do, she prayed over it and answered “yes”. She marched off to do her duty and saw her congregation spread to other countries. Her feast day is February 23.
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Jesus is God and Jesus died.
Jesus is God and Jesus died.
By De Maria
Our souls are said to die when they are separated from God. But that is not true death, just a manner of speaking. They in fact, continue to exist, they are not extinguished. The soul is spiritual. And since spirit is a synonym for life that means they continue to live.
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A Good Enough Christian?
A Good Enough Christian?
By Linda Kracht
This is the type of letter or conversation I hope that every parent has with their soon to be graduating high school son or daughter.
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Pope Saint Fabian
Pope Saint Fabian
By Debra Booton McCoy
As with so many of the other popes we have written about, the sources of information are few: The Liber Pontificalis, written by a number of unknowns over the centuries and compiled in the 1500s, and Eusebius' The History of the Church, written in the fourth century. All other sources are not complete or are written to enhance the images of these men, and may not be accurate.
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Rediscover Jesus Day 2
Rediscover Jesus Day 2
By Lori Conklin
Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you say something and the person you are talking to takes it in an entirely different context or meaning than you intended? Then you find yourself trying to explain what you meant and how you meant it…..without any luck.
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Visiting Our Lady of Good Success: A Pilgrimage to Heaven
Visiting Our Lady of Good Success: A Pilgrimage to Heaven
By Norman Fulkerson
Pilgrimages are very common for the Catholic faithful, often requiring travel to distant places. On February 2, 2016, I was part of an American contingent that made such a pilgrimage to Quito, Ecuador to venerate the heavenly statue of Our Lady of Good Success.
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Jump For Joy!
Jump For Joy!
By Robert Trausch
Have you noticed when God is sending you a symbolic meaning that signals He’s looking at your life and wanted you to see a deeper meaning than what appears on the surface? If you use whatever senses available to you, you will notice them; they are not coincidentally timed or placed! This happened to me recently, accompanied by some good childhood memories of bouncing on a mini-trampoline.
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God's Wavelength
God's Wavelength
By Victor S E Moubarak
I was playing around with an old radio the other day trying to make it work. I’m not particularly good at electronic or electric stuff but that has never stopped me. I plugged the thing in and a small light shone at the front … ah … it’s alive after all.
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Adultery
Adultery
By Juan Trujillo
It’s to destroy the faith, the secret, the intimacy, the time built, the years lived, the unity.
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Alcoholism and Depression - a Catholic Response
Alcoholism and Depression - a Catholic Response
By Leslie Shaw Klinger
I believe that one of the symptoms of the disease of Alcoholism is being prone to bouts of depression. They come out of nowhere. I go to bed feeling pretty darn happy only to wake up 6 hours later dreading the day and wishing everything in my life was radically different because the very life I had 6 hours ago is now horrible.
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Don't Call Me Naomi
Don't Call Me Naomi
By Richard Maffeo
Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara (Ruth 1:20). Tragedy. For some, it seems to always lurk in their shadow. Naomi's story is one of tragedy. It is also one of God in those shadows. I wrote this essay about her several years ago, but story is worth retelling.
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Patience: A Waiting Game
Patience: A Waiting Game
By David Torkington
St Catherine of Siena said that patience isn’t so much a virtue as the test of all true virtue. If you haven’t any patience at all its ten to one you haven’t any virtues either that are worth writing home about.
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