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Accept the Gift of Life
Accept the Gift of Life
By Sharla Ynostrosa
Good Morning out there! I hope everyone is having a great week. I saw a picture on Facebook this morning of Mother Teresa. Her quotes are always thought provoking, and his one really hit me hard today. Mother Teresa said, "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
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Labels and Euphemisms
Labels and Euphemisms
By Lavinia Theodoli Spirito
We are constantly confronted with a specialized language in which every day terms assume politically charged overtones. Take the word ‘choice’. Before 1973 and Roe v. Wade, choice represented the liberty I can exercise according to my preferences and my level of autonomy. After that date, it assumes a whole universe of politically charged meaning.
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'Catholic Vote"
'Catholic Vote"
By Lavinia Theodoli Spirito
What exactly is a “Catholic Vote”? In order to be ‘Catholic’, a vote needs to be cast according to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, otherwise it’s a ‘this is what sounds good to me’ vote. To dress it up post facto, as a Catholic vote based on some nebulous feelings of affiliation, in order to appeal to other voting blocks is not honest.
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Catholic Influence
Catholic Influence
By Erin Saueressig
"And in the end, we were all just humans...drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal or brokenness" This is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's quotes that really highlights the lasting influence that his Catholic upbringing, and education had on his writing..
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The Evangelization Imperative
The Evangelization Imperative
By Lavinia Theodoli Spirito
The New Evangelization depends entirely on a New Pentecost. Only with a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit will the Church rediscover her missionary dimension. This Evangelization is necessary, as long as those within and those without the Church don’t appear to be seeking God and trying to do His will and follow the light of their consciences.
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Has Secularism Conquered the St. Patrick's Day Parade? Cardinal Dolan Should Clarify Church Teaching
Has Secularism Conquered the St. Patrick's Day Parade? Cardinal Dolan Should Clarify Church Teaching
By Larry Peterson
We are up to our waists in the muck of secular quicksand and, slowly but surely, it is trying its best to suck us all deeper into its godless abyss. This insidious secularism has permeated so much of our lives, it has become the norm for many, especially the Millennials
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Salem Matti Kourk: Hated and Murdered by ISIS; Loved by God and His Mom
Salem Matti Kourk: Hated and Murdered by ISIS; Loved by God and His Mom
By Larry Peterson
I guess there is nothing like the shocking beheading of a live, innocent, helpless person by gutless, yellow-bellied devil lovers dressed in black pajamas to garner world attention. The high-profile, barbaric murders of James Foley and Steven Sotloff have done just that. Their murders have been emblazoned across the print headlines and media air waves giving Satan's favorite "crew",
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Thoughts on rape and abortion...
Thoughts on rape and abortion...
By Bobbie Brewer
I've recently had a discussion with a friend of mine who has declared herself a "feminist". Quite a few interesting things came out of that discussion, including how a few of her views had changed in the last few years that we've been friends.
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St. Paul Calls Out to us From Across the Ages
St. Paul Calls Out to us From Across the Ages
By Larry Peterson
The second reading at Sunday's Mass (the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time: 8/31/2104) was from St. Paul to the Romans: 12:1-2. The words reverberated in my head and I think it was not only because of their simplicity and timeliness but primarily because of the message.
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Some Food for Thought on Gay Marriage
Some Food for Thought on Gay Marriage
By Karl Erickson
We’re all familiar with the frantic push for homosexual marriage and/or civil unions. As people of faith striving to live peacefully within a society in growing crisis, we’re probably much more acquainted than we’d like to be with this ideology washing over us from all sides of our popular culture.
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Defending Mary: Part One
Defending Mary: Part One
By Christopher Brown
"The Bible says you shouldn't talk to the dead." That's the first comment I receive when I share with people that I am a Catholic. When further questioned why they would choose that as their first comment to me, they respond that "well, you pray to Mary and the Saints." The honor that we give to Mary and the Saints is a big hurdle for many converts to the Catholic faith.
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Defending Mary: Part Two
Defending Mary: Part Two
By Christopher Brown
Continuing with the defense of Mary, many claim that the Bible strongly condemns communication with the dead. It does not matter if those who died were good or bad, saintly or evil, there is to be no communication between the living and the dead. The only communication with spirit beings that originates with man that is allowed in Scripture is that of prayer to God, and He alone.
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Are you a Good Samaritan?
Are you a Good Samaritan?
By Christopher Brown
“What must I do to inherit eternal life?” That was the question posed to Jesus by the lawyer in Luke 10:25. Wow what a question. Isn’t that a question we have all asked at one time or another? So what is the long awaited answer? In true Jesus' fashion, He answers with a question: What does scriptures say?
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SATAN: the Supreme Commander of ISIS
SATAN: the Supreme Commander of ISIS
By Larry Peterson
At 12:30 p.m. on August 31, 1939, Adolf Hitler made a decision. He issued the order that was to plunge the entire world into its bloodiest war ever: This is the order that started World War II
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WWJD
WWJD
By Al Vargo
Some thoughts for my Christian friends: A common war cry among liberal 'christians' over the past few years has been: WWJD (What would Jesus do?). It's attempt to make people forget Christ's teachings by focusing on His loving nature, to make the secular notion of 'anything goes' seem OK. Since God is love, and Jesus is forgiving, then it doesn't matter how people live their lives,
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The Seventy-Two Disciples
The Seventy-Two Disciples
By Christopher Brown
As we read in Luke:10, Jesus sent out seventy-two disciples to go where He was to go. He told them that He sends them like lambs among wolves. He continues, if you enter a house, say peace to this house, if someone there promotes it, there it will reside, if not, the peace will return to you. Jesus continued with detailed instructions on how they were to conduct themselves on their mission.
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Are You on the Right Road?
Are You on the Right Road?
By Elizabeth Tichvon
There's an exit on one of our local interstates that I call the "Jesus Exit," because there sits a church with a billboard-sized sign of the famous Warner Sallman painting, "The Head of Christ," which depicts our Lord looking up toward His Father in Heaven. Underneath it reads, "ARE YOU ON THE RIGHT ROAD?"
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