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Why the Personhood Issue Matters
Why the Personhood Issue Matters
By Anthony S. Layne
Thus ends Rebecca Bratten Weiss’ May 16 article, “It’s Time to Move Past the Pro-Life / Pro-Choice Dividing Line.” I should make it clear that I often agree with Bratten Weiss in the substance of what she says even when I sometimes wince or cringe over the manner in which she expresses it.
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Can Only Catholics Be Saved?
Can Only Catholics Be Saved?
By Bill Dunn
I’d like to take this opportunity to clarify something. A few weeks ago, while talking about the sacrament of Reconciliation—known as Confession to us old-timers—I made this statement: “The Catholic Church is the only institution in the history of the world that offers answers to the two deepest longings of the human heart: true forgiveness of sin and eternal life in Heaven once our time on earth
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Church Lady Gossips
Church Lady Gossips
By E.M. McCarthy
We used to have something at our church called “church ladies.” They kept the order. We used to find out things after Mass when people would spill out into the sidewalk and talk to each other, face-to-face. There was always something to discuss, something to repeat.
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Will You Be on Our Lady's A-Team?
Will You Be on Our Lady's A-Team?
By Terri Thomas
Our Lady came to Fatima to begin the formation of her “A Team” – a team of new “missionary disciples” who would be bright lights in a time of darkness, and by living an authentically Catholic life, would mission to people who had received a watered down or distorted version of the Catholic Faith or had never received the true Catholic Faith at all.
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From Jehovah's Witness to Catholic Priest an Interview with Father Daniel Bowen, O. de M.the man who made that Journey
From Jehovah's Witness to Catholic Priest an Interview with Father Daniel Bowen, O. de M.the man who made that Journey
By Larry Peterson
Father Daniel Bowen, O. de M., distinctly remembers how every Sunday when he was growing up his mom would take him and his two brothers to Kingdom Hall. Their mom was a Jehovah’s Witness, and this was their church. It was as far removed from the Catholic church as one could imagine.
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Be who YOU are!
Be who YOU are!
By Troy Kroening
You were made to be loved and to love in return. Indeed, all of the cosmos were made from love.
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One Step--Two Step Dance of Life
One Step--Two Step Dance of Life
By Elizabeth Thomas
In past week we have been very "BLESSED" in being taught a new dance as we journey on life's way. It is called the One Step Forward-Two Step Back Dance. It could be called a waltz, but usually involves a 'tangled/tango jingle jangle.'
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Two Greatest Commandments the Key to Happiness
Two Greatest Commandments the Key to Happiness
By Bill Dunn
A lot of people nowadays are desperately seeking happiness. This may seem odd, since our modern society is fabulously prosperous. I’m not minimizing, of course, the fact that there are plenty of people in our nation who are poor and struggling. But overall, the vast majority of citizens nowadays are overwhelmingly blessed, especially when compared to previous generations of Americans.
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Let No One Deceive You
Let No One Deceive You
By Joseph Michael
There’s a special kind of Kool-Aid being passed around at American seminaries and I’m really not sure what’s in it, but’s it is lethal. Recently, a New York Times article went viral in which the president of a seminary in New York City was interviewed by a typically Timesian editorialist; I’m not interested in plugging either of them so I’ll leave both individuals unnamed.
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The Hunt Revisited
The Hunt Revisited
By E.M. McCarthy
When I was a young--somewhere along the age of first memories--I had a life-changing experience. The Easter Egg hunt began on a rather warm April morning. Somehow I remember this standstill day despite all the ordinary days before this moment fading into a black hole of nothingness.
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When Jesus Rose from the Dead where was the Blessed Mother? Ask Pope St. John Paul II
When Jesus Rose from the Dead where was the Blessed Mother? Ask Pope St. John Paul II
By Larry Peterson
When Easter morning arrived, someone was missing. That someone is the very lynchpin of the Salvation story. That someone is the Blessed Virgin, Mary. She is nowhere to be seen or heard. Where was she?
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New Men's Group: ‘Jerks for Jesus'
New Men's Group: ‘Jerks for Jesus'
By Bill Dunn
Recently, I attended a men’s weekend retreat, and during one of the presentations the speaker said, “Before his conversion, St. Paul, known then as Saul of Tarsus, persecuted Christians relentlessly, even to the point of having some believers sentenced to death. He was a real jerk.”
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St. Conrad of Parzham: He served Our Lady for over 40 years as a porter: His permanent "pension" was Sainthood
St. Conrad of Parzham: He served Our Lady for over 40 years as a porter: His permanent "pension" was Sainthood
By Larry Peterson
He was born on a farm in a town called Parzham in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The date was December 22, 1818. His parents, George and Gertrude Birndorfer, were devout Catholics, and they named their new baby Johann Evangelist. Johann was the second youngest of twelve children, five of whom had died in infancy.
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The Easter Mysteries and The Mystic Way
The Easter Mysteries and The Mystic Way
By David Torkington
The very reason why Christ sent out his love on the first Pentecost day was so that it could enter into all who would receive it. This love that would draw us up into his mystical body and then into his mystical contemplation of his Father was God’s plan from the beginning, so that through contemplating his glory we would ultimately be drawn into that glory.
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Reflecting on the Death of Jesus
Reflecting on the Death of Jesus
By E.M. McCarthy
The Stations of the Cross are a deeply prayerful devotion. Pilgrims meditated on the path that Jesus walked as early as 335 AD. Praying The Way of the Cross creates an everlasting bond between those who read them and JesusContemplating events such as Pilate's unfair show trial give us a new understanding of how we blaspheme God when we choose our sins over Him, the Author of Life.
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Blessed Mariano—Before dying, He tended to the wounds of one of his executioners and helped a sick child.
Blessed Mariano—Before dying, He tended to the wounds of one of his executioners and helped a sick child.
By Larry Peterson
His name was Mariano Mullerat I Soldevila, and he was born on March 24, 1897, in Tarragona, Spain. He was the sixth of seven children and his parents, Ramon Mullerat and his wife, Bonaventura, were devout Catholics. Mariano, was baptized on March 30, one week after his birth.
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Five Reasons You Should See The Film Unplanned Despite the Mostly Poor Reviews: Please.
Five Reasons You Should See The Film Unplanned Despite the Mostly Poor Reviews: Please.
By Dr. Lin Weeks Wilder
I cannot be objective about abortion. Consequently, I cannot conceive of it either as a ‘procedure’ or as a ‘right.’ My up close and very personal relationship with abortion has resulted in my writing about it more than a few times. Because the euphemisms never applied when I made the decision: I knew what I was doing.
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