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‘I Believe in the Communion of Saints’
Every time we profess the Apostles Creed, we say these words: “I believe in the Communion of Saints.” It’s a short little phrase that we can seemingly pass through rather […]
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Catholic Hospitals and ‘Gender Reassignment’ for Minors?
In October of 2024, a group known as Do No Harm released the Stop the Harm Database (STHD), a searchable internet resource that comprehensively catalogs sex change treatments performed between […]
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In All Things, Turn to God to Seek His Guidance
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Jeremiah provides this weekend’s first reading. A few facts about Jeremiah are known from the book itself. He was from Anatoth, a […]
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The Balance of Finding True Moderation in the Spiritual Life
T he fellow I was talking to at the bar said he occasionally watched pornography the way you’d say you sometimes liked to watch hockey or old movies. It was […]
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Proclaim the Good News in This Election Cycle
When I mention to fellow Catholics that I will not be voting on Tuesday, November 5, for either the Republican or the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, […]
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We Must Not Only Accept God’s Commands, We Must Love Them
The turn of the liturgical year into its “home stretch” is a turn toward a focus on the Last Things – heaven, hell, death, and judgment. As we move into […]
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God Alone Provides Shelter from the Storms of Sin and Death
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time The first reading for this weekend is from the Book of Isaiah, precisely from its third and last part. Isaiah on several occasions describes, or […]
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The Battles We Fight
“Choose your battles” is generally good advice. It’s wise to acknowledge that not every fight can be won, that we may not have the resources to sustain a war on […]
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A Treat for Holy Souls
The so-called “spooky season” is well underway. The grocery stores are filled with huge bags of candy, houses along my commute are decorated with blow-up pumpkins and enormous spider webs, […]
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A Moderately Important Election
Because I turned 18 in 1986, the first presidential election in which I was eligible to vote was 1988. In the intervening 36 years, I have never voted for a […]
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Each of Us Is Invited to Follow Jesus; Will We Accept His Call?
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Wisdom provides the first reading. This book came to be many centuries ago as devout Jews, distant from their homeland and from […]
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Sacred Scribbles: Piece by Piece, Page by Page
Opal Whiteley was 6 years old when she began keeping a diary, scrawling with a crayon in tightly spaced, phonetically spelled words. She recorded her wanderings and wonderings in the […]