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With all of this chaos and suffering in our world, what can I do?  I am only one person.
With all of this chaos and suffering in our world, what can I do?  I am only one person.
By Troy Kroening
George Floyd has died tragically. COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic killing thousands. And yet, abortion is still killing the most innocent of us, even more than COVID-19. Our world is suffering. Well, of course it is. We did not need COVID-19 or the tragic death of George Floyd to know that, but sadly that is what it has taken for us to finally realize it. Are we just too dense?!?
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"Are there any Winners in the Church because of Covid-19?"
"Are there any Winners in the Church because of Covid-19?"
By Ralph Hathaway
A very rhetorical question that should be on the minds of each one. You can walk or drive by most Catholic Churches and notice signs informing that this building is closed. The devastation of an unseen, and for the most part a confusing entity, has held all of us hostage. This event has affected the world’s population and no one appears to be safe.
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The Real Pandemic is Fear
The Real Pandemic is Fear
By Lorrie McNickle
Christ tells us to fear the one who can kill the soul, not only the one that can kill the body
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A Transformational Journey
A Transformational Journey
By Margaret LaCovara-Reveira
I will always thank God for His gift of life, and with it, the capacity to change. His Word succinctly states in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that “If any person be in Christ, they are a new creation. Old things have passed away, behold all things shall become new.” That verse has applied to my life in every extent, nevertheless there are times that I grieve in my recollection as to what and who I was
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Are we living in a Church that has affected the faith of good people?
Are we living in a Church that has affected the faith of good people?
By Ralph Hathaway
Are we living in a Church that has affected the faith of good people? First, Vatican II promulgated events that appeared to create discontent among some of the clergy who thought that priests would be allowed to marry. When this did not occur many of them were ready to leave, and some did.
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Jesus Can Handle Our Burdens
Jesus Can Handle Our Burdens
By Bill Dunn
The Fourth of July. Independence Day. It was Saturday, July 4th, when our parishes here in Connecticut had their first public weekend Masses since early March. It was a wonderful experience. Attendance at the 5 p.m. Vigil Mass was limited by design. Everyone wore facemasks. Every other pew was blocked off, so folks kept at least six feet from each other. Rather than incense, the smell of hand sani
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Book Review: Failing Forward: Leadership Lessons for Catholic Teens Today
Book Review: Failing Forward: Leadership Lessons for Catholic Teens Today
By E.M. McCarthy
As a parent raising teenagers, I wanted to read Failing Forward: Leadership Lessons for Catholic Teens Today by Alan Migliorato and Darryl Dziedzic
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Welcome Home: Finding Belonging in the Church
Welcome Home: Finding Belonging in the Church
By Katie Zalany
I went back to the parish I grew up in recently and one day I received a surprising call from the pastor whom I had known since my days in high school youth group, and at the end of the call he said, “Welcome home!”
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Who Will Be Our Next Pope?
Who Will Be Our Next Pope?
By E.M. McCarthy
Summer is a good time to read. There are several books being published about a fascinating topic: who will be our next pope? The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates by Edward Pentin comes out August 4, 2020 and I'll review it here, at Catholic365.com.
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Original Sin
Original Sin
By Dan Baca
A little over five years ago, I was desperate for a good answer. At my office, I was working with a woman—who was a fallen-away Catholic—and she had two young children that she would not get baptized. Her opinion—though she didn’t quote scripture—was based upon Deut. 12: 24.
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Are you Looking for an Answer? Take a few moments; you may find it here.
Are you Looking for an Answer? Take a few moments; you may find it here.
By Larry Peterson
The following is for all people, the faithful and non-believers, including atheists, agnostics, nones, and secularists. If you do not believe, you can make a choice and try to see with the eyes of a FAITH that is, for the next few moments, open to you. Or you can just not bother. You know, choices.
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Matteo Farina; his Catholic faith was his strength as he fought brain cancer throughout his teenage years.
Matteo Farina; his Catholic faith was his strength as he fought brain cancer throughout his teenage years.
By Larry Peterson
Matteo Farina was born in Avellino, Italy, on September 19, 1990. It was apparent early in his life that Matteo possessed a deeply spiritual side. He would recite the Rosary every day, read the Gospel, and he developed a devotion to St. Padre Pio and St. Francis of Assisi.
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A Buried Treasure: The "Ave Maria" of Bruno Vlahek
A Buried Treasure: The "Ave Maria" of Bruno Vlahek
By Justin Soutar
Back in 2013, I was visiting the popular British sheet music website Score Exchange (where I happen to sell some of my own music), searching for a good piano arrangement of the familiar and timeless Schubert Ave Maria.
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We Need to Reconsider Daily Mass Times
We Need to Reconsider Daily Mass Times
By Katie Zalany
Go to any daily Mass and you will see a lot of retired people and stay at home moms. Why? Perhaps it's the times of those Masses.
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THE TRASH COLLECTOR
THE TRASH COLLECTOR
By Elizabeth Thomas
I think everyone agrees with the fact that: OUR WORLD HAS BECOME A TRASHY MESS!! Rather it be in the way mankind has trashed up the environment with their bad habits of laziness: or by the way in which ATTITUDES, OPINIONS and BEHAVIORS have trashed out lives with emotional garbage.
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Corpus Christi: Defending the "Real Presence" in the Eucharist
Corpus Christi: Defending the "Real Presence" in the Eucharist
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
If a heart stops pumping blood then the body will die. If the body is drained of all its blood then the body dies. If the body of Christ, the Church, loses the Eucharist then it dies. The moment an individual turns away from the Eucharist as the Real Presence and sees it only as a symbol is when that soul dies.
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Ministry is a Way of Life
Ministry is a Way of Life
By Katie Zalany
These days, many ministries have fizzled out and you may be wondering how you can proclaim the Gospel and serve the people of God. I too was wondering that.
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