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"Please don't answer my prayers!"

Have you ever asked for your prayers NOT to be answered? No, I do not mean "taking back" a prayer. What I am referring to is the...

Work and Rest

A news report I read recently pointed out that President Joe Biden might not have taken the burden of the Presidency seriously (assuming...

Rejecting Economic Wisdom

I know, I know, the barter system was not really efficient. Sure. There are days, however, when I think it might be worth a try. All the...

Love God

"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason: nothing is more reasonable, and nothing is more profitable."  St. Bernard...

Catholic Education

I have never attended or worked in a Catholic parochial school, so my only experience is what I have heard from others. Yet, I can say...

Sound Snippets

I have watched a few videos lately that were criticizing something a particular individual said (a politician, a clergyman, an actor,...

Saved . . . ?

Before I was Catholic, I experienced a lot of different types of religious practice. Most of them had some way of encouraging a person to...

Real Suffering

There is a website that I check regularly; it has links to articles that are significant for the Catholic faith. They are not all from an...

Belief in God

I've said this before, but it needs repeating regularly. Many moderns say that they do not need to believe in God because now science has...

Misleading Children

Demographics and statistics show an interesting trend over the past few decades. Apparently more and more young women of various...

Fruits of Charity

"The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters...

A Time to Kill

In the first reading for Mass yesterday, from the book of Ecclesiastes, we read "for everything there is a season" and a few verses later...

Under Attack

We hear about the attacks on the priesthood on a regular basis these days. The worst kind of attack, however, is to destroy a priest's...

I Wonder if They Realize...

So who really came up with the idea of gender theory and the concept that a person's sex is indefinite until he decides for himself apart...

Democratic Degeneration

Someone once pointed out the clear signs of when a democracy becomes corrupt and is near to collapse. He said that the rulers would be...

If St. Paul Were Alive Today

Taking encouragement from yesterday's post, I want to remind everyone that all the books of the Bible were written in a particular...

Reading Scripture

The Scriptures are not a "secret code" book that have hidden details that we are required to slice up and discover what are the inner...

Contempt for the Magisterium

"[Priests must] expound faithfully the genuine word of God and not their own personal opinions . . . [Today] there is contempt for what...

Acknowledging Christ

I put a brief note about a proposed amendment to our state constitution in the bulletin recently. The proposed amendment (#3) seeks to...

Papal Confusion

A recent convert to the Catholic Church was asked by a friend (who had not converted) how he liked being Catholic, "now that the Pope...

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