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The most famous birth announcement
The most famous birth announcement
By Paul Couturier
The birth of a newborn child is an exciting event! The news of a new birth travels fast among immediate and extended family members. Between the telephone and all the social media we have today, the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family members all know usually within 12 hours!
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Christ-Mass!
Christ-Mass!
By De Maria
In this secular world, Christians decry the fact that non-Christians have taken Christ out of Christmas. But that was bound to happen after non-Catholic Christians took the Mass out of Christmas. Christ-mas is Christes Masse, or the Mass of Christ.
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Have mercy on your children!
Have mercy on your children!
By De Maria
Charity begins at home. Why do Americans kick their children out of their home when they turn 18?
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Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
By De Maria
The Shroud of Turin is the cloth with which Jesus Christ was wrapped after the Crucifixion. Some people would say, the alleged cloth with which He was wrapped. But the matter has been proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. Why?
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Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
By Nate Lauer
I have come to the realization that a majority of Christians underestimate just how magnificent, marvelous, and miraculous was the birth of Christ Jesus.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 9: Truth
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 9: Truth
By Bob Hunt
In his dialogue De libero arbitrio (Free Choice), completed in 395, St. Augustine of Hippo proposes a proof for the existence of God based on our experience of truth.
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The Joy of Christmas Music
The Joy of Christmas Music
By Bill Dunn
One of the most amazing aspects of the Christmas season is the music. There are so many Christmas carols, it’s hard even to count them all. If you took all the music associated with the other 47 holidays on the calendar — including National Doughnut Day and Take Your Goldfish to Work Day — and added them all up, the total number of songs wouldn’t even come close to the number of Christmas carols
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When the World Cried Never Again
When the World Cried Never Again
By Jennifer Elia
While I was in college, I was required to study abroad for both of my majors. I spent three semesters in Europe--first France (a lifetime dream come true), then I moved onto England and finally, Austria.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 7: Martyrdom
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 7: Martyrdom
By Bob Hunt
In all of human experience there is perhaps nothing so sublime or profound as the witness of one who is willing to sacrifice his or her life for the sake of the other, and for the sake of the Other Who is God. “Greater love has no man,” St. Paul said, “than to give his life that another might live.”
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The Force Awakens: Ultimate Episode
The Force Awakens: Ultimate Episode
By Greg Schlueter
Anticipation has been building. This Friday the newest installment of Star Wars Episode VII: "The Force Awakens" hits screens around the world, promising to set box office records and define popular culture for the foreseeable future. What might that mean for Christmas? To Christians? In this Year of Mercy? In our present cultural circumstances?
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Islam: Ignorance is not Bliss….
Islam: Ignorance is not Bliss….
By David R. Myers
Unless you are related to Rip Van Winkle and have inherited his ability to sleep for years at a time, you know of the spread of Islamic terrorism that has plagued the world. I don’t need to reel off events for you. And naturally this has generated a lot of chatter…on television, radio, the internet, at work, church, etc.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 4: Encountering God, Continued
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 4: Encountering God, Continued
By Bob Hunt
Here are more accounts of those who have experienced God in their lives, followed by a discussion of the impact of experiencing God on the brain. Can experiences of God be measured?
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 3: Encountering God
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 3: Encountering God
By Bob Hunt
The experience of encountering God takes the experience of human faith to the next level. Beyond the fact that humans have universally held to the existence of a Supreme Being in every age, culture, and civilization, there are innumerable claims from a great number of people to have experienced God in a deeper way than merely an acceptance of His existence. People have encountered God.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac, Mexico
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac, Mexico
By De Maria
Buenos dias, Madre mia, Virgen de Guadalupe, a ti, con todo amor, te consagro mi corazon! Amen! No estoy yo aquí que soy tu Madre? These are the words which Our Lady spoke to St. Juan Diego when she appeared to him on the hill of Tepeyac, near Mexico City.
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I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
I LOVE Christmas--No Matter What
By Larry Peterson
Turkey Day is over and now the 2015 Christmas odyssey is underway. My personal pilgrimage began Sunday at 5 AM, as I prepared my wife's medications for the week. There are fourteen different pills she takes at different times during the day for varied reasons and I do this every week.
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Pope St. Zephyrinus
Pope St. Zephyrinus
By Debra Booton McCoy
Zephyrinus was born a Roman in the middle of the second century. He reigned as Roman bishop from 198-199 to 217. Hippolytus, a rival, is our only extant source of biographical information on this pope. And much of it is probably exaggerated lies. Thus, he is described as a simple man without education who depended too much on his archdeacon.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Caceres
By De Maria
The 12th of December marks the day that we celebrate the Apparition of Our Lady, to St. Juan Diego in Mexico in the year 1531. It is said that due to that apparition, 8 million pagan Indians turned to Catholicism. It is also said that this was to make up for the 8 million Catholics who had followed Luther into Protestantism.
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