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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Enduring His Wife’s Addiction
Originally at: http://www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2014/12/patti-armstrong-enduring-his-wifes-addiction/ by PATTI MAGUIRE ARMSTRONG Shuffling through the mail, Brad Kremmer pulled out several envelopes from credit card companies and ripped them open. His muscles tightened as he skimmed over the new balances. “She’s lied again,” Brad realized. His wife, … Continue reading
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Is This the End for Mideast Christianity?
Originally at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/november/on-edge-of-extinction.html?paging=off by Philip Jenkins For Christians in the Middle East, 2014 has been a catastrophe. The most wrenching stories have come from Iraq, where the nascent Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL in news reports) has savagely persecuted ancient Christian … Continue reading
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Ten Ways to Battle Gossip
Originally at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2014/12/ten-ways-to-battle-gossip.html by Fr. Dwight Longenecker Have you ever really stopped to consider how ugly gossip is? Working in school, family and parish life you experience time and again how colossally stupid, destructive and therefore sinful gossip can be. The … Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on the Apologetics Subculture
Originally at: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/intellectual-fisticuffs-some-thoughts-on-the-apologetics-subculture#ixzz3JBjZ5k4H by Mark Shea In 1998, I was asked to give a talk at my parish on my conversion to the Catholic Faith. The local Catholic bookstore set up a table of various materials on the Catholic faith and … Continue reading
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4 Literally Awesome Facts About Our Lady of Guadalupe
Originally at http://mtncatholic.com/2014/12/11/4-literally-awesome-facts-about-our-lady-of-guadalupe/ by Matthew “Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, the crossing of my arms? Am I not the source of … Continue reading
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Author, blogger, and former atheist Jennifer Fulwiler
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Lessons from Dietrich von Hildebrand
Originally at: http://denvercatholicregister.org/opinion/lessons-dietrich-von-hildebrand/#.VHMo5IvF_uQ by George Weigel Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was a German Catholic philosopher, part of a circle of thinkers that first formed around Edmund Husserl, founder of the philosophical method known as “phenomenology.” Others in that circle included Max … Continue reading
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Two popes attend gathering of the wise and wrinkled at the Vatican
Originally at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/28/us-people-pope-elderly-idUSKCN0HN0GU20140928 by PHILIP PULLELLA Elderly people, including former Pope Benedict, attended a gathering of the wise and wrinkled at the Vatican on Sunday, where Pope Francis denounced the neglect and abandonment of the old as “hidden euthanasia”. During the festive … Continue reading
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A priest and his mission to save persecuted Muslims in Africa
Originally at: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/mission-3 by JON LEE ANDERSON Fighters from the largely Christian antibalaka militia, which formed in 2013 to retaliate against the ruling Muslim Seleka rebels, leading the Central African Republic into a horrific sectarian civil war.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY JEHAD NGA When the … Continue reading
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Immaculate Conception
Mary Says “Have the Courage to Dare with God!” On Thursday morning, 8 December, 2005, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict presided at Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. The pope first recalled that it … Continue reading
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Catholic Springtime 