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Are You "All In"?
Are You "All In"?
By Lorrie McNickle
I have had two conversations this past week with lapsing Catholics – people that consider themselves to be Catholic even though they find the most basic and simple of all Church teaching – attendance at Sunday Mass –to be bothersome. One of these individuals is even sending her kids to Catholic schools. I just don’t get it. I find this exasperating.
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Pope St. Zephyrinus
Pope St. Zephyrinus
By Debra Booton McCoy
Zephyrinus was born a Roman in the middle of the second century. He reigned as Roman bishop from 198-199 to 217. Hippolytus, a rival, is our only extant source of biographical information on this pope. And much of it is probably exaggerated lies. Thus, he is described as a simple man without education who depended too much on his archdeacon.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
By De Maria
The 12th of December marks the day that we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady, to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the year 1531. It is said that due to that apparition, 8 million pagan Indians turned to Catholicism. It is also said that this was to make up for the 8 million Catholics who had followed Luther into Protestantism.
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A Little Quiet. Please.
A Little Quiet. Please.
By Gail Berna-Dompke
I negotiated the weekend with my family. I am a fan of Thomas Merton and wanted to have a glimpse at the monastic life. The quiet was appealing to me also. To suggest this is a bit of a stretch for me is quite an understatement.
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On Being "Old School"
On Being "Old School"
By Nicholas LaBanca
It’s an obvious fact of life that we Christians live in “the world”. That is, we live in the world as opposed to our true home, eternity in Heaven with God. And so as we live in the world, there are a myriad of different people, ideas and ideologies, cultures and moral codes.
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God of the Old, God of the New
God of the Old, God of the New
By Richard Maffeo
I am the Lord, and there is no other. (Isaiah 45:6} Is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? To hear some people, even in the Church, you would think He is.
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Wheat and Chaff at the Final Judgment
Wheat and Chaff at the Final Judgment
By Bill Dunn
Well, here we are halfway through Advent. There’s only a couple weeks to go until Christmas Day, and yet once again the gospel reading at Sunday Mass STILL does not talk about Jesus’ birth.
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Where is Confession in the Bible?
Where is Confession in the Bible?
By De Maria
This is one of the few Catholic Doctrines that you will actually find explicitly mentioned in Scripture. Even so, Protestants deny it.
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The Comfort of Purgatory
The Comfort of Purgatory
By Mike Bugal
As a former Evangelical Christian Apologetics writer, teacher and preacher reverting to the Catholic Church the Doctrine of Purgatory has been probably the hardest teaching of the Church with which to come to grips. Although similar concepts are not unknown within the pale of mainline Evangelical thought they are neither common nor exactly the same as Purgatory.
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The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
The Redeeming Work of the Holidays
By Mary Ann Gambill
This work, family redemption, comes at a heavy price, often dipping into the pockets of what we thought family meant in the first place. In my early married years we would go to his parents house or mine. We would make the rounds. I would make a dish sometimes, but most of the time, we only brought ourselves, presents, and the one or two children that we had way back then.
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Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
Advent and Kids: 10 Inexpensive Ways to Instill the True Meaning
By Olivia Swyden
We are already about 1 week into Advent, and here I am finally trying to find fun and spiritual things to do with my kids to help them grow up knowing that Christmas is truly about the birth of Dear Lord Baby Jesus instead of Elsa the Ice Queen, candy, movies, mischievous elves, or whatever the hay it is they want Santa to bring them.
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Why did Jesus have to come to earth?
Why did Jesus have to come to earth?
By Victor S E Moubarak
Another week, another Friday. Father Ignatius set out from St Vincent Church to St Joseph Catholic School to take on the Catechism class with the 15 years old. It was always a challenge facing those youngsters, especially since he allowed a few minutes at the end of class for free discussion. They could ask anything they wanted and he promised to give them an honest answer
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Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
Taking Baby Jesus on Retreat
By Karee Santos
For practically every silent retreat during the past fifteen years, I had been either pregnant or nursing. I had gotten used to rearranging the furniture in the tiny retreat house bedroom, so the baby could nestle safely between my body and the wall while we slept at night. This year, my sixth and youngest child had already turned five years old.
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From Jail to Jesus
From Jail to Jesus
By Richard Maffeo
I published what you are about to read sometime around 2001. Now that Calvin is dead, I am urged to tell it again because it is the ageless story of how Christ really can change a person. It’s the story of what true conversion is all about.
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Can you prove the Assumption of Mary from the Bible?
Can you prove the Assumption of Mary from the Bible?
By De Maria
Is there a way to prove the Assumption of Mary other than saying "the Church says so" to a Protestant? I think so, keeping in mind that, “For some, no proof is necessary. For others, no proof is ever enough.”
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The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
The Beauty of the Catholic Mass: the Journey from "Feel-Good Experience" to Arrival at Substantive Faith.
By Robert E.J. Campbell
The Catholic Mass is in a word, beautiful. The perfect balance between Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist, where we gather around the Lord's table and witness once again but forever anew, Christ's ultimate act of love and unimaginable sacrifice, all for the sake of each one of us and our own salvation.
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Today's surrender comes
Today's surrender comes
By Helen Losse
in the silent desert of midnight darkness, the quiet solitude of my own room, where temptations I must resist show up again, where not even the moon gives light to my unrehearsed prayer
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