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School Days - What Will Your Child Learn?
School Days - What Will Your Child Learn?
By Elizabeth Thomas
As a new school year begins, Parents maybe you might want to read this story to your children and ask them---“do you ever feel like some of the classmates don’t like you?” Bullying at school has become a very life changing event in a child’s life. Make sure Parents that your children know they can come to you and share their fears and confusions as they go out into this new world of school.
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Keyboards and Atheists
Keyboards and Atheists
By Richard Maffeo
A guy in one of my online communities boasts he is an atheist. I don’t ask him why he is an atheist. My discussions with such people in the past have always proven fruitless. Anyway, so this guy types his arguments into a keyboard.
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Why We Love The Saints
Why We Love The Saints
By Mike Bugal
A favorite topic of non-Catholic when we are discussing the things of Christ with them is the presence of “statues” in our Churches. Some of them even consider them “idols” and call us “idol worshippers”. They misunderstand the practice of Catholics to asking various Saints to intercede for us in Heaven and attribute things to it that we as Catholics don’t believe…we’ll address that in another art
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The Eucharist, the Fruit of the Tree of Life
The Eucharist, the Fruit of the Tree of Life
By De Maria
The Early Church Fathers taught that the New Testament is hidden in the Old and the Old is revealed in the New. This happens to be one of the most exciting and effective ways to study the Bible and the Catechism.
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The Atheist
The Atheist
By E.M. Wilson
I came across this quote today from avowed atheist Dan Baker which states, "Asking 'if there is no God, what is the purpose of life?' is like asking 'if there is no master, whose slave will I be?' If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning of life comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest."
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A Double Portion of Humility Please!
A Double Portion of Humility Please!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Humility and Patience are two virtues or gifts we rarely if ever ask God for. However they are very, very important in our spiritual walk and therefore sometimes God as a good parent, will say, “here take this bitter tasting medicine—it is good for you.”
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What Pro-Choicers Must Deny
What Pro-Choicers Must Deny
By Matthew Newsome
Those who are pro-life believe abortion to be wrong because abortion is equivalent to murder. Both involve killing an innocent human being.
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Pope St. Anicetus
Pope St. Anicetus
By Debra Booton McCoy
Born in Emesa, Syria at the end of the first century, he came along at a time when most of the Apostles had already died. Anicetus was of the generation of leaders who had never met any of the original leaders of the fledgling Church.
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Paths
Paths
By Catherine Garrett
It's been a while since I've written something. I haven't taken the time to prayerfully consider anything to write. So here I am, thinking about what I should write about. It occurs to me however, it's not what I should write- it's what God needs me to write so someone else reads it at the exact time they need to read it.
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What Is Dialogue?
What Is Dialogue?
By Mary Rivers
A simple enough question; it is more than just talk Pope Francis says, using Thomas Merton as an American example. Thomas Merton, a contemplative monk living in a hermitage in rural Kentucky, never –the- less dialogued with many thinkers world-wide. He dialogued with the farmer living next door, the driver who sometimes drove him to Louisville, the monks of the Orient, the editors of his papers,
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Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
By De Maria
Most of us don’t have time to study the Bible. We’re busy raising families and keeping our jobs. Even if we did have the time, most of us are not highly inclined to do those things. Its too much like work, boring through that ancient tome and trying to learn and understand its lessons which are not often explicit. Its pretty hard. Right?
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Do I Expect My Typical Children to be Responsible for my Special Needs Children?
Do I Expect My Typical Children to be Responsible for my Special Needs Children?
By Mary Ann Gambill
Do I expect my typical children to be responsible for my special needs children later in life?! NO. I do not expect them to. I hope and pray everyday that Doug and I raise their hearts as such that they naturally, willingly, and with a joyful heart love their siblings well, both as children and as adults.
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The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
By Kevin Noles
In the comments section of my article Are Good Works Automatic?, Another person and I had a good spirited debate on works and justification. He believes his interpretation is authoritative and rejects the Catholic interpretation, which the Bible agrees with. .
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Love Wins
Love Wins
By Samuel Voss
Love Wins. It’s the statement that recently echoed across Facebook; the hashtag that took Twitter by storm; the word art that has accompanied countless rainbow-streaked profile pictures. After the historic Supreme Court ruling this summer, this phrase has been shouted and proclaimed by nearly every walk of life across the United States, from the lowly activist to the President himself.
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Some Objections to Baptism Part 3
Some Objections to Baptism Part 3
By Mike Bugal
For some opponents of the place that the Bible gives to Baptism in the plan of salvation all that matter is the thief on the cross. Never mind what Jesus said *after* His resurrection to the apostles and never mind what the apostles themselves preached and wrote throughout the rest of the New Testament.
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Works of righteousness, what are they?
Works of righteousness, what are they?
By De Maria
the Catholic Church teaches that we are not literally saved by our faith and works. Our faith and works, combined, do not amount to the value of the gift of eternal life which Jesus died upon the Cross to bestow upon us. Nor can we, by our own physical effort, wash our souls of sins.
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Praise and Worship, Hymns and Mass
Praise and Worship, Hymns and Mass
By Emily Allen
There seems to be an ever growing divide within the Church, especially among millenials, in regards to Mass-appropriate music. Masses ordered towards the youth automatically make use of contemporary music and oftentimes bands, as opposed to “traditional” Masses using the organ and choir. People develop their musical preferences and tend to get extremely defensive over them.
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