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Value Of Fasting And Feasting
We celebrate feasts differently than we used to. Formerly, there was generally a long fast leading up to a feast, and then a joyous celebration afterwards. Today, usually, there is
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Pro-Life And Anti-Abortion
The next few years will be decisive regarding the question of abortion. The battle will be definitively lost or won. Bottom line, we have had, in the Western world, abortion
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Sacrifice Frees Us From Guilt
“Every time I thoroughly enjoy something, I feel guilty, like I am stealing pleasure from God. The deeper the pleasure, the stronger the sense of guilt!” These words, and others
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Some Of Life’s Questions
Rarely do faith, hope, and love come to us pure. Instead, like life itself, they come with mess and doubt, raising huge questions. Living a human life is not a
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A Heart With One Room
Our age is witnessing an erosion of Catholicism. The consequence of this, besides our dram somberness, is a polarization which, both in the world and in the church, is rendering
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Church Needs More Laughing Fools
We take ourselves too seriously. In the end, we are too pompous about our projects, causes, ideologies, and enthusiasms. This is not to deny that, in the world and in
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Love Is Coming Home
The human heart is complex. Many of us have learned this through much pain. It can give us the assurance that what we are experiencing is truly love and then,
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Worldly Evil: The Faith Test
American novelist, James T. Farrell, once wrote: “I’d like to see God. I’d like to tell him a few things! I’d like to say, ‘God why do you create men
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Controversial Film Misunderstood
090188 Much controversy has surrounded the movie, “The Last Temptation of Christ.” Directed by Martin Scorsese, a Roman Catholic and former seminarian, this film, based upon Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel of
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Can You Ever Really Leave Home?
Several years ago, Carlo Carretto, one of the great spiritual writers of our time, returned to Italy from the Sahara desert after many years as a monk among the Bedouin.