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Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
Five facts that will make you a more effective apologist
By De Maria
Most of us don’t have time to study the Bible. We’re busy raising families and keeping our jobs. Even if we did have the time, most of us are not highly inclined to do those things. Its too much like work, boring through that ancient tome and trying to learn and understand its lessons which are not often explicit. Its pretty hard. Right?
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Do I Expect My Typical Children to be Responsible for my Special Needs Children?
Do I Expect My Typical Children to be Responsible for my Special Needs Children?
By Mary Ann Gambill
Do I expect my typical children to be responsible for my special needs children later in life?! NO. I do not expect them to. I hope and pray everyday that Doug and I raise their hearts as such that they naturally, willingly, and with a joyful heart love their siblings well, both as children and as adults.
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The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
The Church and Authority: Part 1 One Visible Church
By Kevin Noles
In the comments section of my article Are Good Works Automatic?, Another person and I had a good spirited debate on works and justification. He believes his interpretation is authoritative and rejects the Catholic interpretation, which the Bible agrees with. .
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Love Wins
Love Wins
By Samuel Voss
Love Wins. It’s the statement that recently echoed across Facebook; the hashtag that took Twitter by storm; the word art that has accompanied countless rainbow-streaked profile pictures. After the historic Supreme Court ruling this summer, this phrase has been shouted and proclaimed by nearly every walk of life across the United States, from the lowly activist to the President himself.
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The Domestic Church in the Global Village
The Domestic Church in the Global Village
By Michele Szekely
The domestic church is the family. It is the faith-life of the family. It is this invisible structure made of the love between each family member and between them and God. It is resting on the visible members of the family, but it is being nourished by the invisible energy of grace.
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Works of righteousness, what are they?
Works of righteousness, what are they?
By De Maria
the Catholic Church teaches that we are not literally saved by our faith and works. Our faith and works, combined, do not amount to the value of the gift of eternal life which Jesus died upon the Cross to bestow upon us. Nor can we, by our own physical effort, wash our souls of sins.
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Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
Fight or Die: What it means to be a Catholic Man
By Randal Schmidt
Recently I was asked to sit on a panel for a new class of catechumens beginning RCIA in my local parish. The panel was discussing the question, “What does it mean to be a Catholic?” I had previously been on this same panel a year before, and at that time, I had answered this question in terms of my then-recent conversion.
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Time For The Terrific Catholic Men's Conference - October 24th
Time For The Terrific Catholic Men's Conference - October 24th
By Bill Dunn
Have you noticed how difficult it is to be a faithful Catholic man nowadays? The values of our culture have changed drastically in recent decades. Things that were unheard of not too long ago are now commonplace. Our society is awash in pornography and casino gambling, and few people think it’s a problem. We don’t allow living children to be born, and then call it “comprehensive health services.”
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Families...Sometimes Plates Can Fly!
Families...Sometimes Plates Can Fly!
By Brigid Vacca
Pope Francis’s visit has been big news recently. And perhaps even bigger news in my house, where my oldest daughter was fortunate enough to be selected to attend one of the Holy Father’s services with a youth group!
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Donating Blood
Donating Blood
By Ana Braga-Henebry
The Bloodmobile returned recently to our parish, and I took my usual turn in a long list of donors. When the technician apologized for the bruise, I told her that I would wear it as a badge of honor. After all, I would not be here if it were not for other donors, long ago in South America.
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Pay Attention!
Pay Attention!
By Jean Briese
“You are supposed to pay attention in Mass!” Allie admonishes me. At eight years old, she is very aware of “the rules.” As an active child who would always rather be outside playing than inside doing anything else, she has heard this from me many times.
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Irregular Priest
Irregular Priest
By Michael Ripple
I don't want to have parish council meetings, plan weddings, or worry about a cemetery and parish school (few that are). I've always been clear on those above points. But the one thing I miss? Praying and celebrating Holy Eucharist and hearing Confessions. The one thing that probably is needed more than ever in this world.
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On happiness and children, shared moments and bagels…
On happiness and children, shared moments and bagels…
By Michele Szekely
I was standing in line at the supermarket, waiting for my turn; I had put her down in the top part of the cart, where she sat quietly, holding (or rather clutching) the brown bag with our bagels, as I had asked her to do. The lady ahead of me looked at us and smiled and said “She is sooooo cute!” and the cashier said “What’s your name, sweetie?”
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Natural Family Planning (NFP) for the Unmarried
Natural Family Planning (NFP) for the Unmarried
By Hannah Marie
I am writing about Natural Family Planning (NFP,) right? Yes! Over the past few months, I’ve joined a new wave of Catholic women who are exploring NFP for their own personal knowledge, health, and well-being without a fiancee or spouse by our side. Why should single, unmarried Catholic women learn NFP?
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So the Pope met Kim Davis
So the Pope met Kim Davis
By E.M. Wilson
So the Pope met with Kim Davis. And everybody is freaking out about it. And quite honestly, I love the sentiment from non and anti-Catholics who feel betrayed. “Omg I thought Pope Francis was cool and it turns out he’s going to stand with Catholic Church doctrine that unequivocally states that marriage is between a man and a woman. Boo! Hiss!
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Tea, Coffee or Christ?
Tea, Coffee or Christ?
By Jennessa Terraccino
There are 100 million daily coffee drinkers in America. I drink tea. My favored flavor is a piping hot pot of Earl Grey. Even when I am cold, I never drink tea in flight. Its not because I am partial to garden tea parties, it’s simply that airline tea tastes like coffee. If you brew tea in a coffee pot, like they do on airplanes, it might as well be a cup of Joe.
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We Must Forgive to Be Forgiven
We Must Forgive to Be Forgiven
By Bill Dunn
One of the scariest verses in the Bible has to be Matthew 6:15. It is right in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus tells us: “If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father (in Heaven) forgive your transgressions.” Now, this is not some obscure passage from one of those confusing Old Testament books that few people read and even fewer understand.
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