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• "The Devil Does Rob Us of Clarity by Casting Us About in Shadows"

  

  "The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do no... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2015 SOCIETY

• '“Islamophobia,” Which, Like “homophobia,” is a Way to Pathologize Those Who...

  

  In the aftermath of the evil that took place in France early this morning, what follows from Tom McDonald ought to be a must read for all: How broken is Europe? Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "We Sit at the Piano of Life and Insist That Every Note We Strike is Right –...

  

  “We fit a creed to the way we live, rather than the way we live to a creed; we suit religion to our actions, rather than actions to religion. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 SOCIETY

• How Can It Be?

  

  This Lauren Daigle song is beautiful. Give it a listen. I am guiltyAshamed of what I've done, what I've becomeThese hands are dirtyI dare not lift them up to th... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 SOCIETY

• 'So What Should “church” Mean for Catholics?'

  

  This, from Chris Smith, resonates: A lot of things are blamed for the state of religious belief today:  The Reformation, The Enlightenment, Modernism,... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Are You Seen to Be a Loser?

  

  I'm reminded often, implicitly or explicitly, passively or aggressively, that I'm a loser.   Well meaning people, and those who are just flat out mean old (and... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "Life is Full of Choices"

  

  Words of advice to begin a new year from Elizabeth Yank: Life is full of choices. I can follow my self-centered will and repartee unkindness with unkindness or... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 SOCIETY

• There's a Time and a Place for Everything...

  

  ... and then there's a time and a place to sit down and simply shut your pie-hole: U.S. Navy veteran Dario Raschio was all smiles Saturday as he awaited a... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Prayers for Bella

  

  My sweet little niece Isabella, fondly called Izzy or Bella, is undergoing a heart procedure this morning.  Asking all who read to join in prayer for her: Lovin... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "I Don’t Believe in the Assumption of Mary"

  

  Welcome to the third in a series of posts dealing with objections to the Catholic faith sent to me by an old friend who happens also to be Pastor of a Protestan... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "All Dogmas Are Doctrines, but Not All Doctrines Are Dogmas"

  

  A few days ago I promised to respond, in a series of posts, to objections to the Catholic faith communicated to me by a Pastor friend. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Without the Church and Her Guidance , We “would Be at the Mercy of Our...

  

  Pope Francis had some timely words of wisdom today in this piece the Catholic News Agency: In his homily on New Year’s Day, Pope Francis said that Jesus and... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "I Am Disqualified to Be a Catholic, Correct?"

  

  I received an email from an old friend yesterday on the cusp of the new year ushering in old arguments against Catholicism but done so in what I'm choosing to... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 SOCIETY

• "The Morbid Thing..."

  

  Tod Worner is confessing about confessing... of course the whole thing is a must read, as Tod's stuff has become for me, but I particularly loved this G. K.... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 SOCIETY

• "I Cannot Stress Enough How Much I Hated the Idea of Becoming Catholic."

  

  I love conversion stories like this one: It was the day after Ash Wednesday in 2012 when I called my mom from my dorm room at Southern Baptist Theological... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Have Allowed Silence to Become a Gift Forgotten..."

  

  Elizabeth Scalia proves why she is one of my favorite go-to Catholic writers: The silence of which we sing so wistfully at Midnight Mass, is at an all-time... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 SOCIETY

• "I Know a Lot of Us Don't Like to Think About This Fact..."

  

  Chris Stefanick is pondering that which most of us will not ponder at all... not anytime soon anyway. If that question's a bit too deep for you, at least right... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Are Challenged to Look at What It Means to Be Family."

  

  Deacon Greg Kandra's homily for tomorrow's Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is frank yet beautifully hopeful: I’m struck every year by the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 SOCIETY

• "He Was Just Hours Away from Becoming a Lay Chaplain"

  

  More is being learned about Rafael Ramos, one of the murdered NYPD officers, who will be laid to rest today in Glendale, New York: He saw the streets of New Yor... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2014 SOCIETY

• It's the Most, for Some, Sickeningly Twisted Time of the Year

  

  You have to be one seriously messed up person to do this sorrt of thing: A baby Jesus statue at a Haverhill church’s nativity scene was taken and replaced with ... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 SOCIETY