Category: Life
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How the Problem of Evil Points to God’s Existence
The question, then, is not how evil and suffering is compatible with an all-good, all-powerful God (it obviously is) but why God allows it.
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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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Belonging, Believing, Behaving: The 3 B’s Of Faithful Being
Only when we realize that we belong to our God who created us and loves us can we then come to believe and then see how both belonging and believing shape our behaving.
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Pandemic Exile: By the Rivers of Babylon
Before the pandemic crisis, we often slouched toward Mass with a sense of obligation, endurance, or habit, with little thought as to what it meant to be free to worship.
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Lord, You Have Accomplished All That We Have Done
There is a misunderstanding that is common even among believers, that God is one competitive cause among others.
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Be Like Mike: Jordan’s Work Ethic Can Enrich Your Spiritual Life
Michael Jordan trained harder than anyone, but he realized that if he was going get results, he needed a solid foundation.
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Divine Mercy for Protection
Jesus said, “By means of this Image I shall be granting many graces to souls; so, let every soul have access to it”.
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Three Self Isolations that Changed the World
St. Paul is an example of someone who didn’t waste his time while he was locked down and he was reaching out to people.
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My First Year of Priesthood: Scandals, Viruses, and the Holy Spirit
Being in the boat with Jesus, even if the waters are terrifyingly tempestuous, is better than jumping ship. God is in the boat and I am not a good swimmer.