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Is Catholic Social Teaching Conservative, Liberal, or Moderate?
Those adjectives notoriously admit of various meanings. Let’s apply some common uses of the terms conservative, liberal, and moderate.
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The Contagious Enthusiasm of St. Bede
Saint Bede was a member of the Benedictine movement. He was born in the year 673.
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Sunday Connection: The Ascension
Throughout John’s Gospel, Jesus has been presented as the Word, who pre-existed with the Father and was sent to do the Father’s work on earth.
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Christ, Hearer of Sins, and the Priests We Pray For
I have always found sacramental confession to be powerful. It keeps me accountable for my sins to God and to another human being.
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Ascension Thursday
Priests known from their channel as Coffee-N-Clerics discuss Ascension Thursday.
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Wholesome Books: 5 Suggestions For Imaginative Refreshment
Good wholesome books can offer changes of pace that allow us to gain strength for more weighty tomes and topics.
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Homily of the Year
The period following Second Vatican council, there was a sort of dumbing down of the faith, and there was a tendency to present it as a very emotional experience while underplaying the rationale and theological side of the faith.
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What Miracles Point to
If God heals you, give him thanks and praise. If he doesn’t, worship him anyway.
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Sunday Connection: The Advocate
Jesus contrasts his impending departure with the permanence of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus will leave to return to the Father, but the Holy Spirit will remain with the disciples.