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Year of Faith – Plenary Indulgences
October 9, 2012 Thanks to the Pope having inherited the Keys of Peter, as of October 11 we will enter a year of special grace. From October 11, 2012 until November 24, 2013, Catholics taking part in...
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Powerful Pro-life Ad
October 12, 2012 The rebellious disdainers of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, and those who still reject this encyclical and Casti Conubii, Pope Pius XI’s encyclical on married life, probably never...
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Sabbath Moments
October 13, 2012 Awareness of God This post is linked to Colleen’s Saturday meme, Sabbath Moments. How about joining us for some inspiration? Gathering persimmons A person is never too old for new...
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Peace Among Thorns
October 17, 2012 Pax Inter Spinas (Peace Among Thorns) is a new site where “a modern monk discovers the liturgical riches of the Benedictine congregation of Saint Maur (1621-1790)”. “Pax” is Latin for...
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All Souls Day – the Faithful Departed
November 2, 2012 An Angel Frees Souls from Purgatory c. 1610, Ludovico Carracci, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca, Vatican Yesterday we celebrated the feast of the Church Triumphant – all those who ran the...
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The Lost Culture War
November 9, 2012 Michael Voris of Church Militant TV makes some excellent points as to why, as long as we are free to choose error, we shouldn’t be surprised at what the logical outcome is when...
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An Obama Voter Flames Me
November 12, 2012 Rarely do I get flamed by a reader, but this comment was sent to me privately through my contact form at this blog regarding last week’s post, The Morning After. We’ll give the...
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Parable of the Wheat and the Cockle
November 13, 2012 Lolium temulentum (cockle, tares) - Wikipedia This past Sunday in the 1962 Roman Missal the Gospel reading was Mt. 13: 24-30, the parable of the man who sowed good seed in his field....
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Sharing in the Sins of Others
November 16, 2012 This is the first of nine posts on the subject of sharing in the sins of others. Moral theology seems to have been a dead letter in the pulpits for the past 50 years or so. Many...
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Sharing in the Sins of Others: By Consent
November 21, 2012 Stoning of St. Stephen - Rembrandt This is the third post in a series of nine on how we share in the sins of others. In Acts 6-7 we hear the story of the purpose and institution of...
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Sharing in the Sins of Others: By Praise and Flattery
November 27, 2012 Probably one of the most despised employee by other employees is the “suck up” as he is known in today’s slang. Powerful people attract flatterers because the person doing the...
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Sabbath Moments – The Immaculate Conception
December 8, 2012 Awareness of God Thanks to Colleen at Thoughts on Grace for this great Saturday meme. Today I’m celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception by devoting this entire post to her,...
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Sensus Fidelium –“Supernatural Instinct”
December 17, 2012 The first week of December marked the annual plenary session of the International Theological Commission headed by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine...
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21st World Day of the Sick
January 28, 2013 The Good Samaritan – Van Gogh Vatican City, 28 January 2013 (VIS) – Benedict XVI will grant a Plenary Indulgence to the faithful participating in the 21st World Day of the Sick to be...
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Cardinal Mahony Relieved of All Public Duties
February 1, 2013 This post is connected to Sabbath Moments at Thoughts on Grace. Some years back Cardinal Mahony issued a perfidious letter concerning the Holy Eucharist. If not outright heretical,...
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Benedict XVI on Being Pope
February 27, 2013 In his final address today Pope Benedict gave us a lesson on being pope. That, of course, was not the purpose of it, but that’s the lesson I took away. I witnessed the validity of his...
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Praying for the Election of the Roman Pontiff
March 11, 2013 Nothing is more important right now for Catholics and for the world than electing a holy and capable man to the throne of Peter. He will either be a light in the darkness as many of his...
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Newsflash: Pope Francis is Catholic
March 14, 2013 Yesterday the conclave elected Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, who took the name “Francis” as the successor to St. Peter. The usual suspects within the Catholic Church began flipping out...
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Loving Pope Francis
March 15, 2013 Humility We can tell a lot about a person from his non-verbals – how he carries himself, his gestures, the tone of his voice and facial expressions. From the beginning one of the most...
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EWTN Daily News Program on Its Way
June 3, 2013 July 29 marks the beginning of daily newscasts from an office near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. by EWTN, one of the world’s largest religious broadcasting operations. Thank you Mother...
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