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"Gender Fluidity" Sweeping Our County's Schools; Get Ready, It Will Sweep Our Country's Schools (Installment #1)
"Gender Fluidity" Sweeping Our County's Schools; Get Ready, It Will Sweep Our Country's Schools (Installment #1)
By Melanie R. Cameron
In March 2015, the Fairfax County Virginia School Board announced it would be voting to add “gender identity” to its nondiscrimination policy list. On May 7, 2015, after voting in this policy (10-1), the board surprisingly introduced a sweeping set of curriculum changes (8.5 and 10.5 are directly contrary to Church teaching), many of which are directly contrary to Church teaching
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Catholic Heaven
Catholic Heaven
By Victor S E Moubarak
A man dies and goes to Heaven where he is face to face with St. Peter. The keeper of the Pearly Gates taps his computer keyboard a few times and asks: “What’s your religion?” The man eagerly replies “Catholic”; knowing full well that this is the one and only true Church which Jesus founded all those years ago. Jesus was after all Catholic Himself.
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Living a Holy Life is Child's Play
Living a Holy Life is Child's Play
By Melanie Jean Juneau
God has called me to live out a childlike spirituality of joy which is not an east path for a modern adult who is told to be independent and self-sufficient. This spirituality was not of my choosing. I craved the life of an intense regime of self-sacrifice as a consecrated, contemplative religious.
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Putting Pope Francis in Perspective
Putting Pope Francis in Perspective
By Michael D. Greaney
A senile old fool at the mercy of factions in the Church, manipulated by the Jesuits, out of touch with reality, a disappointment to liberals seeking more change, and a menace to conservatives trying to hold the line against any change ... Pope Francis? No. That was how some discontented individuals and groups in the Catholic Church viewed Pope Leo XIII (Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci, 1810-1903)
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Guardians of the Galaxy and Chastity? [Spoilers]
Guardians of the Galaxy and Chastity? [Spoilers]
By Erika Wehrly
When considering a pure chaste movie to watch Guardians of the Galaxy is most likely not your first pick. However, I found there to be quite a good message about chastity hidden among these galaxies. The movie starts off with Peter Quill aka Star Lord as an adult soon after showing him as a child being abducted by aliens right after his mother's death.
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My love/hate relationship with the Duggars
My love/hate relationship with the Duggars
By Michael Hemphill
The Duggars creep me out. Granted, as a Catholic I feel I’m supposed to admire their faith in family and God. But well before the scandal involving Josh Duggar, I found the J-loving, Baptist-believing family to be more cult than cute.
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An Authentic Me
An Authentic Me
By Liliana Almanza-Raya
I always tell my friends that if a restaurant has to use the word “authentic” in their name, then I am more likely not to eat there. I am a Mexican American with a huge love for authentic Mexican cooking, that I have come to learn I can only find in someone’s kitchen or in Mexico itself. If the restaurant has to proclaim itself as authentic then there is something wrong.
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We're not Crazy, we're just Catholic
We're not Crazy, we're just Catholic
By Al Vargo
Reasons why people think we're "crazy" - We like to keep Mass interesting. We seem to sit, stand and kneel, in no particular order. Probably just to keep the blood flowing.
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Music Ministry in Today's Parishes
Music Ministry in Today's Parishes
By Pat McDermott
When we leave Mass on Sundays there are usually two things that we comment on: the homily and the music. Yes, we care about the readings, and the prayers, and receiving the Eucharist, but the music and homily seem to make or break a big piece of our experience. I would like to share some thoughts on music as a ministry.
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Out of the Garden
Out of the Garden
By Lori Conklin
You know what the problem with world today is? We tend to think we are the only ones who have ever walked the earth. By that, I mean, that the problems we are experiencing in our world today are NEW!!! They, however, are not! We might think we have evolved in the years since the Garden, but we have not. Satan temps us with the same temptation he tempted Eve with, to be like God.
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The Contraception Issue, Protestants, and Our Unchanging God
The Contraception Issue, Protestants, and Our Unchanging God
By Arnold Scott
The use of artificial contraception technologies is not a very controversial moral issue in our culture these days. It is widely accepted. It was not very controversial 100 years ago either; it was outlawed. In the U.S., it was only in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled that artificial birth control would be legal for married couples (Griswold v. Connecticut)
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The Messages of Our Heavenly Mother, When Will We Ever Listen?
The Messages of Our Heavenly Mother, When Will We Ever Listen?
By Catholic365
June 12, 1973, a month after 42 year old convert from Buddhism, and totally incurably deaf, Sr. Agnes Sasagawa arrived at the Institute of the Handmaids of the Holy Eucharist in Yuzawadai just outside of Akita and when she opened the tabernacle for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, a very strong light came from it and filled the entire chapel
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"Over the top" - the love in Jesus' heart
"Over the top" - the love in Jesus' heart
By Fr. John Wotherspoon
The phrase "over the top" seems to have been first used in World War I when soldiers left the safety of their trenches and went "up and over" to charge the enemy ....a foolhardy venture ....a display of recklessness ....suggesting excessiveness.
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The Supreme Court on Stage: The Fate of the American Family Waits in the Wings
The Supreme Court on Stage: The Fate of the American Family Waits in the Wings
By Larry Peterson
G. K. Chesterton said, "This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it." June is upon us and so is the decision by the United States Supreme Court as to whether or not "same-sex marriage" is allowed under the U.S Constitution.
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3 things everyone can do to become a saint
3 things everyone can do to become a saint
By Laura Peredo
In a culture where we’re constantly going and doing, it’s easy to get caught up in everyday life and forget to stop and smell the bacon, or incense, to make that analogy more Catholic. As is the case for many people, we fall into bed wishing we had the time to finish those last couple things on our to-do lists.
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Questions
Questions
By Barry Cullum
We all have questions. Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green, or at least it should be if I watered the lawn? Who will win the Stanley Cup? Did they really kill off my favorite character on that TV show (sadly they did)? All of these questions keep humanity moving forward in big and small ways. Most questions are trivial. They can be answered quickly with doing some simple research.
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Gifts of the Holy Spirit-Wisdom
Gifts of the Holy Spirit-Wisdom
By Debra Booton McCoy
In a previous blog, I listed the gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, know- ledge, piety and fear of the Lord. But, aside from the catechism, where do we find these gifts recorded? How do we know that they are truly the gifts of the Holy Spirit? Where does this teaching come from?
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