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Matthew Hanley
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11.19.09
James V. Schall, S. J.
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11.18.09
Mary Eberstadt
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11.17.09
Ralph McInerny
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11.16.09
Robert Royal
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I am aware of the ways in which charity has been and continues to be misconstrued and emptied of meaning, with the consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached from ethical living and, in any eve... |
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(P. G. Wodehouse's) Bertie Wooster. . .not only knows that he is a person of no account, but also never expects to become anything else; till his dying day he will remain, he knows, a footler who requ... |
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Some people want to insult and abuse the army, because it’s a good line these days. . . . In fact, at all political demonstrations it is a required theme. If you don’t take that line you d... |
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People are losing the power to enjoy Christmas through identifying it with enjoyment. When once they lose sight of the old suggestion that it is all about something, they naturally fall into blank pau... |
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If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. |
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It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps... |
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
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Mary and mystagogy
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By John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae
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The Rosary is one of the traditional paths of Christian prayer directed to the contemplation of Christ's face. Pope Paul VI described it in these words: “As a Gospel prayer, centred on the myste... |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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Benediction
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By Charles Baudelaire
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Blessèd be You, O God, who give us pain,
As cure for our impurity and wrong —
Essence that primes the stalwart to sustain
Seraphic raptures that were else too strong.
I know ... |
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 |
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To the reader
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By Charles Baudelaire
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Folly and error, sin and avarice,
Labor our minds and bodies in their course,
Blithely we nourish pleasurable remorse
As beggars feed their parasitic lice.
Our sins are stubborn, our repent... |
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We cannot say: creation or evolution, inasmuch as these two things respond to two different realities. The story of the dust of the earth and the breath of God . . . does not in fact explain how human... |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
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A dangerous aversion
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By Benedict XVI, The Regensburg Address
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I am reminded of something Socrates said to Phaedo. In their earlier conversations, many false philosophical opinions had been raised, and so Socrates says: “It would be easily understandable ... |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
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The one, true Church
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By Venerable John Henry Newman, A Grammar of Assent
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The “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church” is an article of the Creed, and an article, which, inclusive of her infallibility, all men, high and low, can easily master and accept with a r... |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
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The acceptable time
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By Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
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The present is very precious; these are the days of salvation; now is the acceptable time. How sad that you do not spend the time in which you might purchase everlasting life in a better way. The time... |
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I would go so far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God. |
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Speaking against the Magisterium of the Church is presented as courageous. In reality, however, it does not take courage for this, since you can always be sure of audience applause. . . .Rather it tak... |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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War and peace
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By Cardinal Francis George
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For eighty years we were a slave republic, and it took a terrible war to end that. And now for forty years we're in an abortion regime, and I'm not sure how that's going to end. |
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Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober... |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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The other China
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By Confucius, Analects, 2:4
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At fifteen, I set my heart on learning. At thirty, I was firmly established. At forty, I had no more doubts. At fifty, I knew the will of heaven. At sixty, I was ready to listen to it. At seventy, I c... |
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Dear Member of Congress
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By Bishop William F. Murphy, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishop John Wester
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On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), we are writing to express our disappointment that progress has not been made on the three priority criteria for health care refor... |
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Vampires for me were always like feeling grief for my lost childhood faith, being cut off from that life. I reached the point where I didn’t have any more stories to tell from that point of view... |
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I can't feel that the Church of England is an ultimate solution: in fifty or a hundred years I believe we Romanizers will either have got the Church or been thrown out of it. |
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
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On the road
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By Archbishop Timothy Dolan, installation homily
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[A]re we not at times perhaps like those two dejected disciples on the road to Emmaus? They were so absorbed in their own woes, so forlorn in their mistaken conclusion that the one in whom they had pl... |
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The awareness of being saved by the love of Christ, which every Mass nourishes in the faithful and especially in priests, cannot but arouse within them a trusting self-abandonment to Christ who gave h... |
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Luther set up the highest spiritual principle: pure inwardness. It may become so dangerous that we can sink to the lowest of lowest paganism (however, the highet and the lowest are like one another) w... |
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Not merely learning about divine things but also experiencing them - that does not come from mere intellectual acquaintance with the terms of scientific theology, but from loving the things of God and... |
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The obvious truth is that the moment any matter has passed through the human mind it is finally and for ever spoilt for all purposes of science. It has become a thing incurably mysterious and infinite... |
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While Eucharistic symbolism is well suited to helping us understand the effect that is proper to this Sacrament – the unity of the Mystical Body – still it does not indicate or explain wha... |
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
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The Maine answer
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By StandforMarriageMaine.com
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Yes on Question 1- the People’s Veto - does not discriminate against gays; it simply restores the meaning of marriage and protects it as an essential institution that has benefited mankind since... |
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
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All wolves
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By Thomas Jefferson
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We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest—which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to p... |
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. |
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
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Gay marriage?
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By U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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What are called 'homosexual unions,' because they do not express full human complementarity and because they are inherently non-procreative, cannot be given the status of marriage. |
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 |
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Tribulations
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By Saint Thomas More
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We may not look at our pleasures to go to heaven in featherbeds; it is not the way, for our Lord Himself went thither with great pain, and by many tribulations, which was the path wherein He walked th... |
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
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The civil authority
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By Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus
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Once the authority of God and the sway of His law are denied in this way, the civil authority as an inevitable result tends to attribute to itself that absolute autonomy which belongs exclusively to t... |
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It is my practice to direct the graduating seniors each year to the prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas for after Holy Communion, since it contains great wisdom about the Christian life. St. Thomas prays, &l... |
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I have been in many churches, chapels, and halls where a confident pride in having got beyond creeds was coupled with quite a paralysed incapacity to get beyond catchwords. But wherever the falsity ap... |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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The Book of nature
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By Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
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In order to protect nature, it is not enough to intervene with economic incentives or deterrents; not even an apposite education is sufficient. These are important steps, but the decisive issue is the... |
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
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Confirmation prayer
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By Catechism of the Catholic Church
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All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by water and the Holy Spirit
you freed your sons and daughters from sin
and gave them new life.
Send your Holy Spirit upon them
to be their ... |
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BOSWELL: " So, Sir, you are no great enemy to the Roman Catholic religion."
JOHNSON: "No more, Sir, than to the Presbyterian religion."
BOSWELL: " You are joking."... |
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While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and no... |
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When I reflect, as I often do, on the ardor with which the patriarchs longed for the incarnation of Christ, I am pierced with sorrow and shame. And now I can scarcely contain my tears, so ashamed am I... |
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Same-sex marriage is quite different from bans on interracial marriage in one powerful respect: It asks religious Americans to surrender a core belief – no, not Leviticus (disapproval of gay s... |
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War makes death real to us, and that would have been regarded as one of its blessings by most of the great Christians of the past. . . . All the animal life in us, all schemes of happiness that center... |
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. |
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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The path to zero
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By Archbishop Edwin O'Brien
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Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but both the human knowledge and the technical capability to build weapons cannot be undone. A world with zero nuclear weapons will need robust measures to monitor, ... |
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
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Marry young
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By Frederica Mathewes-Green
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A pattern of late marriage may actually increase the rate of divorce. During that initial decade of physical adulthood, young people may not be getting married, but they’re still falling in love... |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
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Politics and religion
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By James Carroll of Carrollton
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happi... |
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When the battle is at hand, they arm themselves interiorly with faith and exteriorly with steel rather than decorate themselves with gold, since their business is to strike fear in the enemy rather th... |
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Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. |
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
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Declaration on Euthanasia
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By Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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It is necessary to state firmly once more that nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or o... |
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Oh, how I love Humanity,
With love so pure and pringlish,
And how I hate the horrid French,
Who never will be English!
The International Idea,
The largest and the clearest,... |
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. . . .We forget - I kept saying - that we are all children of the King.
For where we come from there is no division
into Yes and No, into is, was, and will be.
We were miserable, we used no mo... |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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Liberalism
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By John Henry Newman
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Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God's grace;
Men of presumptuous heart! I know you well.
Ye are of those who plan that we should dwell,
Each in his tranquil home and holy place;
Seeing the Word refi... |
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The year of grace 1654, Monday, 23 November, feast of St. Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology.
Vigil of St. Chrysogonus, martyr, and others.
From about half past ten at night u... |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
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On Human Work
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By John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
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THROUGH WORK man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society w... |
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And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall... |
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A university is a blessed place, a sacred space in which persons converse in the pursuit of universal knowledge. In universities, mind speaks to mind, and (over time) heart speaks to heart. For what w... |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever... |
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73. Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose ... |
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Brothers! Spare reasoning; - men have settled long
That ye are out of date, and they are wise;
Use their own weapons; let your words be strong,
Your cry be loud, till each scared boaster flies.
Th... |
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Friday, 28 August 2009 |
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Moment of Truth
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By Archbishop Charles Chaput
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We're at a time for the Church in our country when some Catholics – too many – are discovering that they've gradually become non-Catholics who happen to go to Mass. That's sad and diff... |
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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Prayer for life
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By John A. Hardon, S.J.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Author of human life. You, with our God the Father and the Holy Spirit alone have the right to determine who should be conceived and how.
You are also the Destiny of ... |
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Through baptism a person is reborn to a spiritual life, one proper to Christ’s faithful, as the Apostle says (Gal 2:20), “the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God... |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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Get it right
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By St. Thomas Aquinas
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.... |
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Even revelation is a dialogical process. In revelation God addresses us and speaks to us as to his friends and moves among us in order to invite and receive us into his own company (Dei Verbum, 2). Th... |
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Thus says the LORD: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping! Rachel mourns her children, she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more.
Jeremiah 31:15
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For the early Christians, there was no difference between what today is often distinguished as orthodoxy and orthopraxis, as right doctrine and right action. Indeed, when this distinction is made, the... |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 |
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Dominion
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By Book of Genesis
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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the cre... |
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I’m quite encouraged by the antipathy of the media towards the Catholic Church. Christ said that it would be a sign of contradiction.
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Christians from the earliest times went from other countries to Jerusalem to see the holy places. And, when the time of persecution was over, they paid still more attention to the bodies of the Saints... |
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The Church is not something dead: it is the body of Christ endowed with supernatural life. As Christ, the Head and Exemplar, is not wholly in His visible human nature . . . nor wholly in the in... |
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009 |
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Ideology
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By Kenneth Minogue
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Ideology provides sham religion and sham philosophy, comforting in its way to those who have lost or never have known genuine religious faith, and to those not sufficiently intelligent to apprehend ... |
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"What is the world's religion now? It has taken the brighter side of the Gospel, its tidings of comfort, its precepts of love; all darker, deeper views of man's condition and prospects being comp... |
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[D]ecadence, relative to truth, has depths. The least serious is just ignorance of the truth. Second, and a deeper level, is exclusion of the truth. . . . [Y]ou not only don't know, but you accept and... |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
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Erring Reason
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By Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
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The will of those who slew the apostles was evil. And yet it was in accord with the erring reason, according to John 16:2: "The hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he do... |
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 |
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The Collar
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By George Herbert
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I Struck the board, and cry’d, No more.
I will abroad.
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Shall I be ... |
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift up the wage earner by pullin... |
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Monday, 03 August 2009 |
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God's Grandeur
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Gener... |
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I proffer the thesis that, over the past generation . . . the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can “afford to recognize” and tha... |
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At the end of what is called the “sexual life” the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted e... |
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
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Imagine
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By Jane Susan Campbell
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Believe me, it is a terrifying experience to lie in a hospital bed and hear your doctors—the very people you should trust most—calmly decide that your life isn't worth living.
And the a... |
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And I too, when born, inhaled the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth; wailing, I uttered that first sound common to all.
In swaddling clothes and with constant care I was nurtured.
For ... |
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.... |
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With the disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection that could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization—the illusion th... |
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The medical and human aspects must never be separated and it is the duty of every nursing and health-care structure, especially if it is motivated by a genuine Christian spirit, to offer the best of b... |
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The fate of all of us depends on whether this moral dignity of the human person can be defended in the world of technology, with all its possibilities. For here a particular temptation exists for our ... |
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I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court’s jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott. The metho... |
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O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we addres... |
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Now, defending reason is not a strategic ploy, but belongs to the very essence of Christianity. Chesterton's Father Brown, when he is asked how he succeeded in unmasking a fake priest, answers: "... |
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I suddenly had a picture of the entire astonishing edifice (of modern scientific knowledge) collapsing and modern man plunging headlong back into the primordial ooze. He’s floundering, sloshing ... |
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At Honolulu dignitaries representing Church and State boarded airplanes and a U. S. tug for the short trip to Kalaupapa. There, with a Japanese cameraman filming the proceedings an... |
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The pressures [in developing countries] to legalize abortion are increasing . . . also with recourse to the liberalization of new forms of chemical abortion under the pretext of safeguarding reproduct... |
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Over the past 200 years, the power of the press in democratic societies has grown dramatically. The influence of the press led the 19th century poet and playwright Oscar Wilde to write that :
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To proclaim that Christians and Muslims have the same God, and to hold to that, believing thereby that one has brought the debate to its term, denotes only a superficial approach. Their Gods do not pa... |
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[Michael] Novak concedes that sports is “not the highest form of religion . . . and Jews, Christians, and others will want to put sports in second place” (emphasis added), but “when ... |
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Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic development of ev... |
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That pulled him up. For the first time he grasped, with the only kind of knowledge that matters, what they were really talking about. The words “a baby” took on a new significance. They di... |
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The contention, then, that the civil government should at its option intrude into and exercise intimate control over the family and the household is a great and pernicious error. True, if a fa... |
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The first truth to which the American Proposition makes appeal is stated in that landmark of Western political theory, the Declaration of Indpendence. It is a truth that lies beyond politics; it impar... |
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Bread sustains us in this temporal life; the consecrated bread is the means of eternal strength for soul and body. Who could live this visible life without earthly food? And in the same general way th... |
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
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Only the devil
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By George William Rutler
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In the nineteenth century a young man confessed his sins to a peasant priest in the village of Ars in France, Saint John Vianney. The floor began to shake, knocking the fellow over. Vianney picked him... |
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He slipped his knife into the knapsack of the girl ahead of him as the line approached the security checkpoint at the entrance to St. Peter's Basilica. She wore her hair in a crew cut, and her shapele... |
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Take away America, its freedom, its optimism, its institutions, its Judeo-Christian beliefs, and its educational tradition, and little would remain of the West, besides the geriatric routines of a n... |
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Discourse about rights has become the principal language that we use in public settings to discuss weighty questions of right and wrong, but time and time again it proves inadequate, or leads to a sta... |
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There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He... |
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HIV/Aids is a tragedy that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which can even increase the problem. |
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 |
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The Bible on Marriage
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By The Rev. Canon Dr. George Sumner
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At the risk of belaboring the obvious, it may be pointed out that we are not talking about the introduction of a totally new doctrine, where nothing had existed before, but rather we are proposing t... |
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Wickedness is sometimes called madness in Scripture -- so it is. As literal madness is derangement of the reason, so sin is derangement of the heart, of the spirit, of the affection. And as madness ... |
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"Nature's God," as Jefferson and the other founders conceived of Him, was the cause or source of a natural order that included a human order, a law of nature that applied to human affairs. M... |
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All material things obey money, so far as the multitude of fools is concerned, who know no other than material goods, which can be obtained for money. But we should take our estimation of human good... |
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It is therefore always necessary, however it happens, that we encounter authority somewhere in the intellectual and moral world. Its place is variable, but it necessarily has a place. Individual indep... |
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 |
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About Job
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By Archibald MacLeish
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God believes it will be demonstrated that Job loves and fears God because He is God and not because Job is prosperous . . . that Job will still love God and fear him in adversity, in misfortune, in th... |
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While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember... |
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Everything you hear in ads and entertainment is telling you that your goal is to wake up next to someone gorgeous tomorrow morning. That's the rationale of consumer sex. But I think what humans really... |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
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The so-called right
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By Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It ... |
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[T]he essence of Christianity is not an idea, not a system of thought, not a plan of action. The essence of Christianity is a Person: Jesus Christ himself. That which is essential is the One who is es... |
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DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Many court watchers believe that within five to ten years the U.S. Supreme Court will hold that there is a constitutional right to homosexual marriage, just as that court invented a right to abortion.... |
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The cult of celebrity is not new, but it is increasing in its scope and effect. At one time, people wanted simply to gawp at the famous, and possibly dress like them. Now, many take their moral and po... |
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Now there are those who would patrol life, not after it becomes a harvest but while it is seed in the granary. The new kind of vigilance would not wait until the fruit appeared on the tree, as did H... |
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. |
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To those who believe in God, I say: let us be strong in his strength that infinitely surpasses our own; let us be united in the knowledge that he calls us to unity; let us be aware that love and shari... |
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." |
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission – I may never know it in this life, but I shall be t... |
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
The Silence of the Sea |
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structure... |
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From Vatican II until today, several documents of the Magisterium — and especially The Catechism of the Catholic Church — have confirmed the teaching of the Church on homosexuality. The Ca... |
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In the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world, Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council was already addressing scientists, urging them to join forces to achieve unity in knowledge ... |
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OVER the carnage rose prophetic a voice,
Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,
Those who love each other shall become invincible,
They shall yet make Columbia vict... |
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The Catholic Church has taken a hardline position against right-wing dictatorships. But in Cuba, the Church has been silent - or worse - ever since 1960, when Fidel Castro expelled hundreds of Catho... |
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
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Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
that sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all thing you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a ga... |
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Because of the integrative function of philosophy in the Catholic tradition, because of the way that philosophy has to open up and illuminate relations between theology and the whole range of secular ... |
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I say then, that, even though the case could be so that the whole system of Catholicism was recognized and professed, without the direct presence of the Church, still this would not at once make such ... |
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This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than “Da Vinci.” Its preposterous narrative, efficiently rendered by the blue-chip screenwriting team of Aki... |
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In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his choices, made as a consequence of entering into r... |
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At first we [Joseph Ratzinger and his brother] weren't [members], but when the compulsory Hitler Youth was introduced in 1941, my brother was obliged to join. I was still too young, but later as a sem... |
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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. |
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One danger confronting philosophers is that they may forget that their enquiries begin from and extend the enquiries of plain persons and that they are exercising their philosophical skills on behalf ... |
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Secularism is a partial ideology, which cannot respond to the decisive challenges of man. Suffice it to think of the damages caused by Communism or by the eradication of the moral fabric of ancestors ... |
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from the life of Mother Teresa
By the age of 18, Agnes [Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother's name in the world] had decided to become a missionary nun.
Father Jambrekovic, S.J., her pastor, encouraged her ... |
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