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The Principle of Double Effect Part 1: What Is It?
The Principle of Double Effect Part 1: What Is It?
By Jonathan Hayes
The Principle of Double Effect has a long history and is a fascinating topic of discussion. Yet many people do not know or fully understand exactly what it is. What does it mean? How does it affect my life? Let us attempt to answer these questions and give a synopsis of the essence of this Principle.
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Why We Refer to Our Priests as Fathers?
Why We Refer to Our Priests as Fathers?
By Sergio Garibay-Olivares
How many times are we told "Don't call your priest a Father, it is a sin"? The people that question Catholics mostly for this reason of why we refer to our Priests as Fathers, [they] tend to quote from St. Matthew 23:6-11
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Behold Your Mother
Behold Your Mother
By Sherry Kenner
My hometown is blessed with many Catholic churches, including Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. I have attended mass at this church most of my life, beginning at my baptism soon after birth. There is a beautiful replica of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Icon I have always loved, but I never took the time to understand its meaning or significance to our church history.
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What is Cowardice?
What is Cowardice?
By Jonathan Hayes
I was at a job fair for my company a few days ago. One of the employees from the company, who we will call Alice, just got done doing an interview with a very hopeful prospect. The only thing that is a potential issue is that he has a lot of tattoos; it is company policy that all tattoos must be covered, and he has a few of them that would be very difficult to do so.
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The Lost Sheep Bringing Our Young Adults Back To Church?
The Lost Sheep Bringing Our Young Adults Back To Church?
By Tess Shore
It seems many churches are having issues keeping the 18 to 23 year old population participating in weekly Mass. It also seems that once they leave the Church, it is harder to bring them back. So what is the Church supposed to do?
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Thomas More and King Henry
Thomas More and King Henry
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
We were assigned to read the two act play by the woman who ran the English department at the small Catholic college in Houston where I had been granted a scholarship, much to the amusement of friends and family because I had declared myself an atheist at eighteen.
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What I Learned From the Early Christians about Spiritual Growth Part 5: We Don't Need as Much Stuff as We Think
What I Learned From the Early Christians about Spiritual Growth Part 5: We Don't Need as Much Stuff as We Think
By Carl Sommer
Some time around AD 245 there lived in the Roman city of Carthage a man named Cyprian, a wealthy, important man with a talent for rhetoric. His impressive personal gifts, along with the accident of his birth, ensured that he would prosper in pagan society, and he became enormously wealthy. He also fell into the innumerable vices to which pagan Roman society was susceptible.
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Thinking About Thinking
Thinking About Thinking
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
As a recovering bibliophile, I made a promise to myself to read each of the books purchased in the last decade or two and am now making my way through After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. Despite the density of the philosopher’s prose, reading this book is bringing me back to a place I once knew well: thinking about thinking.
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The Church vs Gay Marriage
The Church vs Gay Marriage
By Sergio Garibay-Olivares
How many of you get called stupid, bigot, old school for standing with the correct definition of marriage? Isn't it amazing that liberalism preaches about welcoming all people and all opinions, but yet they seem to hate our ideologies and beliefs...apparently all opinions and beliefs are welcome until someone else has opinions that stand against liberalist ideology.
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Believe in Miracles
Believe in Miracles
By Susan Skinner
“Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.” - (Pope Blessed Pius IX) Everyone loves a good miracle, yet I find today so many of us do not believe. We have stopped expecting the Holy Spirit to act. I find myself some days also needing hope in moments of despair, and it is then that I remember, we have a God of miracles.
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Ten Reasons to Attend Daily Morning Mass
Ten Reasons to Attend Daily Morning Mass
By Lora Wilson
Daily Mass is like the time that the risen Lord cooked fish on a charcoal fire and served bread to the apostles on the beach. John 21:12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” He wants to feed you, too! He loves you so much, He wants to become a part of you, and to give you daily bread. What better way to start the day?
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Catholic vs catholic
Catholic vs catholic
By Sergio Garibay-Olivares
The difference between a Catholic and a catholic are enormous. The world now lives in a modernist era that confuses many, but there are always faithful ones that remain swimming against the current.
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Preparing for The End
Preparing for The End
By Judy Landrieu Klein
I don’t know about you, but everywhere I turn lately, there seems to be some prophetic warning about an impending economic and social collapse coming to America. Secular financial experts are saying it. Evangelical Protestant pastors are saying it. Catholic evangelists are saying it.
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We Must Evangelize With Joy
We Must Evangelize With Joy
By Ana R. Plumlee
In the spring semester of my freshman year of college, I took a ten week course called Nature of the Church. This course was very informative, and I found it quite interesting. I was expecting it to be, honestly, very dull. I got a lot out of it.
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Courage, Dear Heart
Courage, Dear Heart
By Laura Peredo
Let’s be real, folks. Our world is a molten hot mess of depravity right now.
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Respect! The Intercultural Dialogue by applying the Golden Rule
Respect! The Intercultural Dialogue by applying the Golden Rule
By Josef Bordat
There is need for intercultural dialogue in the world today. The question is: How could it be realized, especially in a global society of different cultures, of particular political ideas and pluralistic religious views? One hint we can find is within the Golden Rule: mutual respect.
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Now, As For That Hail Mary
Now, As For That Hail Mary
By Elizabeth Thomas
I bet you never thought of the Hail Mary prayer as anything but—a prayer. Oh but you are in for a surprise, as I was the day the Holy Spirit whispered new insight into the richest promise of this prayer for we who recite it.
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