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There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church – which is, of course, quite a different thing. — Fulton Sheen, Radio Replies While some Catholics may know where the Catholic Church stands […]
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Catholic all your life? I’m so sorry… Just converted? Even more sorry. You probably already know… but… the Catholic Church is positively boring. Here’s some reasons why. Churches They’re just boring! Ugly… Yawn… You would think if these Catholics really loved God, they would build him some beautiful churches to worship
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Do you remember your senior superlatives? Half the fun was finding out who would get voted “Best dressed” or “Most likely to skip class.” It’s fun to look back at the various “awards” and remember those heady days of high school. In that vein, I though it would be fun to look at a few
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Remember back to that scene in “Indian Jones and the Last Crusade” when Indy (played by Harrison Ford) was forced to pick the “true” Holy Grail from several shelves of Chalices to save the life of his father? Donovan (played by Julian Glover) drinks from the wrong one and dies, whereas Indy picks the correct one and gains
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Our faith is always challenging us to look deeper and go “further up and further in.” No matter how much you may know, there are always more things to discover. That’s the beauty of investigation and discovery and if we are not learning each and every day, we are wasting our potential and not using
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In this world of craziness, you might be a little off your rocker to study Catholicism and even sillier if you choose to become a Catholic (GASP!). If you did take the plunge (in the waters of baptism as an infant or as an adult) and you are Catholic, maybe you should have read this
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October is the Catholic Church’s annual celebration of “Respect Life Month.” Whether in the midst of an election cycle or at any other point during the year, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves that all faithful disciples are encouraged to embrace our universal call to holiness, no matter our circumstances. This is perhaps particularly evident
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This post begins a series addressing arguments against papal infallibility. The first of them is fairly easy to refute, but it is worth mentioning because of how common it is. The argument goes like this: “The pope is a sinner, like everyone else, and so therefore can hardly claim to be infallible.” Now, you will
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Technically, there isn’t much outside the Holy Mass that a parish is obliged to offer its congregants. Within the Mass the mandate to provide for the catechetical, pastoral, and sacramental needs of the parish are essentially covered. There are many ministries that often get overlooked, underestimated, or taken for granted that if they no longer
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We become MORE united with Christ (Catechism of the Catholic Church #1391) At first, this one sounds like a no brainer, but if we think about the fact that we actually become closer to God as a result of our faithful reception of the Eucharist you would think that daily mass would be packed! I mean,
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