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My Encounter with Light in the Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Why Apps Cannot Replace Temperance in Preventing Suicide
In a fast-paced world, everyone wants everything instantly and effortlessly. That desire is part of a culture in which happiness and pleasure are expected yet not always delivered. When people [...]
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Novus Quodlibet: The New Whatever Liturgy
I have attended the Novus Ordo Mass all my life. I do not believe it was necessarily a mistake to have the Mass translated into the vernacular, so that people [...]
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LGBTQIA: It’s the Taxonomy, Stupid*
“Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown us, we are not discouraged. Rather, we have renounced shameful, hidden things; not acting deceitfully or falsifying the word of [...]
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Tomi Lahren’s Perverse Obsession With Death
Keep your rosaries off my ovaries! This week, Fox News pundit Tomi Lahren delivered a variation of this tired pro-abortion reaction to millions of fans and viewers. Lahren suggests that pro-life conservatives would favor what she calls a "religious judicial [...]
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The “Francis Effect” Five Years Out
In his recent book on Pope Francis, Lost Shepherd, Philip Lawler reminds us that the papacy should be a source of Church unity. However, as Lawler points out, under the [...]
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On Islam Is on Target
One of the interesting aspects of Fr. James Schall’s refreshing collection of essays, On Islam, is that it provides a chronological record. The first essay appeared in 2003, the last [...]
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