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Contracepting Children Is Like Contracepting Christ
Contracepting Children Is Like Contracepting Christ
By Rose Cuervo
Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and prolific Catholic author spoke in Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe, NY conference on Humanae Vitae on an incontrovertible witness.
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Our Lady of Puy-- The Site of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary after Her Assumption into Heaven
Our Lady of Puy-- The Site of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary after Her Assumption into Heaven
By Larry Peterson
The first recorded apparition of Our Blessed Mother occurred in the year 40 A.D. She was still alive at the time and living in Jerusalem. But she had made a promise to the apostle, James the Greater; she had told him that she would visit once he started his journey of carrying the gospel message to the ends of the earth.
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The Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary; This was Her defining Virtue
The Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary; This was Her defining Virtue
By Larry Peterson
July 17 we celebrated the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The dictionary defines humility as the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one’s importance, rank, etc. A few synonyms for the word humility would be; lowliness, meekness, or submissiveness.
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Not Devaluing The Person And Sex Is The Gift Of Humanae Vitae
Not Devaluing The Person And Sex Is The Gift Of Humanae Vitae
By Rose Cuervo
Listening to the talk of Fr. Donald Haggerty in the July 21, 2018 Immaculate Conception Church’s conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae made me somber on two points but I will get to that later.
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The First Feast of Blessed Solanus Casey-- July 30, 2018
The First Feast of Blessed Solanus Casey-- July 30, 2018
By Rosemary Bogdan
On November 18, 2017, more than 66,000 people gathered at Detroit’s Ford Field, a multi-purpose indoor stadium and home of the Detroit Lions. It was a rainy, blustery day, yet as the thousands peacefully lined up at security there was not a face without a smile.
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Cultural incompetence, panic and plagiarism in the Bernstein Mass
Cultural incompetence, panic and plagiarism in the Bernstein Mass
By Rose Cuervo
In the light-filled Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center complex, lady director Elkanah Pulitzer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz sat with WNYC’s John Schaefer before the July 18, 2017 showing of Bernstein’s Mass. Here are snippets from their conversation and commentary:
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Meet the Findleys | Family Portrait Series at ILoveMyFamily.us
Meet the Findleys | Family Portrait Series at ILoveMyFamily.us
By Greg Schlueter
Steve and Lorna Findley of Huron, OH spend their time “raising the next generation of superheros.”
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Beatific Mission
Beatific Mission
By Greg Schlueter
If you haven't yet encountered a Mission worth your every penny, every resource, every talent, every breath-- you're living a half-life. No provision will relieve your greatest poverty. No rising ladder will take you higher. No recreation will re-create.
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Pentecostalism, Donatism, and the Apocalypse Letters: "You Have Left Your First Love"
Pentecostalism, Donatism, and the Apocalypse Letters: "You Have Left Your First Love"
By Scott Pauline
Bet you didn't know that the Benny Hinn type could be in the Apocalypse letters? Sound crazy? Well come along and let me make my case, darnit!
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Our Invitation
Our Invitation
By E.M. McCarthy
My kids' Catholic school gave out tee shirts with a logo “Live like a Saint” written in big letters across the back. The navy color with white letters makes these words, spoken by a priest who was their school chaplain, stand out.
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Can You Live on One Bag of Groceries a Week?
Can You Live on One Bag of Groceries a Week?
By Katie Zalany
I was volunteering at a local St. Vincent de Paul food pantry recently. The pantry gives its clients 1 bag of groceries per month, unless they have more than 2 people in their household, in which case they get 2 bags.
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Confession Can Make You Whole Again
Confession Can Make You Whole Again
By Joe Donovan
Stephen Colbert and I share a couple of things in common. We are both Catholic and we both go to confession. But we differ in which he conducts mock midnight confessions on late night TV, while I practice the Sacrament of Reconciliation in real life.
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Faith Needed for Miracles
Faith Needed for Miracles
By Bill Dunn
This week’s gospel reading contains one of the most startling statements in all of Scripture. Jesus returned to His hometown and, frankly, it did not go very well.
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Will the Church Change Its Teaching on Artificial Birth Control?
Will the Church Change Its Teaching on Artificial Birth Control?
By E.M. McCarthy
There was a great divide inside the Church when Pope Paul VI disregarded The Birth Control Commission's recommendation to accept artificial birth control as morally sound. Instead, he wrote the Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae (fifty years ago).
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What is sin?
What is sin?
By Dan Baca
I had the opportunity to be working with some young men at a juvenile detention center. On one occasion, I was helping the young Catholic men prepare to give their confession that would take place the following weekend.
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Venerable Maria Guadalupe Ortiz de Landazuri Fernandez de Heredia---Her Beatification will take place in 2018
Venerable Maria Guadalupe Ortiz de Landazuri Fernandez de Heredia---Her Beatification will take place in 2018
By Larry Peterson
On December 12, 1916, in Madrid, Spain, the fourth child and only daughter of Manuel Ortiz Landazuri and Eulogia Fernandez-Heredia, was born. Since it was the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, her parents named her Maria Guadalupe, bestowing a great blessing on their child.
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Welcome Wagon
Welcome Wagon
By E.M. McCarthy
(A Satire) Prime Minister Leo Varadkar walks into a spacious room. The office is well-appointed and overlooks the city. A billboard with a large red heart with the word Repeal inside is visible from the window. A woman is typing, one finger, on her computer. Varadkar approaches the antique desk.
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