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Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner--What Are We To Make of All This?
Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner--What Are We To Make of All This?
By Rosemary Bogdan
I have to say that the entire transgender issue has been quite a mystery to me for a long time. I've done a lot of reading about it lately. My heart does go out to those people who are suffering in this way. It seems to me that this issue is most likely a psychological issue, rather than biological, but in either case, these are people who are hurting and very distressed. I pray that they can fin
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Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven
Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven
By Melanie Jean Juneau
Somehow the average Catholic does not associate joy with holiness but believes holiness is synonymous with misery. Yes, before someone becomes outraged, redemptive suffering is a powerful vocation. Yet Catholics are more focused on the Passion than on Pentecost while Pentecostals are more focused on, well, Pentecost.
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How Spiritual Direction Helped Me
How Spiritual Direction Helped Me
By Karen Cubberly
I know you are probably saying that spiritual direction is for saints and holy people and you would be right. Aren’t we all holy people? Isn’t the goal in life to live as close to the life of a saint as we can? At least that’s what I’ve always been taught.
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What is a Christian Mindset?
What is a Christian Mindset?
By Mary Annthipie Bane
As Christians we are called to set our minds on the things above and not be focused and driven to the things of this earth. We are to store up our treasures in heaven and to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
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At Your Wit's End? That's Where God Hides
At Your Wit's End? That's Where God Hides
By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F
Sometimes God seems downright playful. He likes especially, it seems, to play the childhood game of “hide-and-seek.” St. Augustine wrote, “Lord, why do you seem to seek those who hide from you, but hide from those who seek you?”
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Lifeboat Theology
Lifeboat Theology
By Deacon Vernon Dobelmann
Do you see the world as a sinking ship on its way to judgment and hell? Are you grasping for the lifeboat? I have heard numerous comments expressing sadness at the direction our country is going. One person said to me, "It is futile to fight in the culture war. We have lost." One blog post title even lamented that, "Marriage is dead and so is the Church."
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Emendation
Emendation
By Timothy Neboyskey
Square pegs don’t fit into round holes
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3 reasons to go back to Confession
3 reasons to go back to Confession
By Laura Peredo
Growing up, I always thought it was a little weird when people came out of the confessional with tears in their eyes. How hard can it be? Just step in, confess the same things you’ve been saying for years, and bam! A clean white soul. It seemed pretty simple to me.
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Christ Our Passover Lamb: Jesus' Real Presence In The Eucharist
Christ Our Passover Lamb: Jesus' Real Presence In The Eucharist
By Alex Brittain
Second maybe only to the doctrine of the Trinity, the doctrine of the Eucharist can appear to be the most absurd of our Catholic beliefs. We actually believe that during the Mass when a validly ordained priest says the words of consecration, the bread and wine that are on the altar become the true Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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2. What's the Big Idea?! (The Freedom Papers) - what is actually unique about the American idea?
2. What's the Big Idea?! (The Freedom Papers) - what is actually unique about the American idea?
By Teddy Pierce
This article is one in a series titled, "The Freedom Papers," a work dedicated to sanity. Therefore, may it be a thumb in the eye of mainstream media, subjective science, lazy religion, agenda philosophy, lobbied politics, elitism, and those that would abuse mankind with them.
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The Beginner's Introduction to Mass
The Beginner's Introduction to Mass
By Matt Warner
Attending Catholic Mass for the first time can be rather confusing and foreign for the non-Catholic. In looking around the internet for a good introduction to the Mass to show my non-Catholic friends and family, most of the ones I find seem to be too in depth and complicated for one who has never been to Mass to really understand. So I decided to write an simple introduction to the Mass
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The Church & Human Sexuality
The Church & Human Sexuality
By Matthew Newsome
Like most secular universities, the school where I serve as campus minister offers a wide range of classes, from forensic science to European history to psychology. A couple of years ago two of my campus ministry students were taking a psychology class on “human sexuality."
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The Beauty of Daily Mass
The Beauty of Daily Mass
By Tess Shore
Every day all over the world, priests get up to pray and do the most important job in the world at least in my view. Depending on the church and area, the beauty of Daily Mass will be said.
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Why I Remain Catholic
Why I Remain Catholic
By Judy Landrieu Klein
I may be a day late and a dollar short, but I’d like to chime in on the discussion. I want to respond to Elizabeth Scalia’s (The Anchoress, Patheos.com) challenge to present a cyberspace cloud of witnesses all answering the question: Why do I remain Catholic? So here it is: Why do I remain Catholic?
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My Thoughts on Marriage
My Thoughts on Marriage
By Mariel Roersma
I told myself that I was going to keep basically quiet about the new marriage law that has been talked about every where, and on everything. But then I realized that my feelings are probably very different from most everyone else. And so I wanted to put them out there.
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Feelings
Feelings
By Catherine Garrett
Recently on Facebook I have seen posts about people wanting to find "a new church". There are various reasons; the new pastor is boring, the person asking hasn't been to church in years and now has children and so they need a church with a separate children's service, their last church didn't clap enough... But the ones that really get to me are the "I was raised Catholic but...."
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Coming out as Catholic
Coming out as Catholic
By Pam Spano
Coming out as Catholic surprised me but it gave me a boldness in faith that I never experienced before.
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