At first blush, the Catechism of the Catholic Church may seem like an imposing book. First of all, it’s BIG. The one on my desk is over 800 pages. Second, the margins are full of strange numbers. Plus, every paragraph is numbered. How are we supposed to read a book like that? Third, there are [...]
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A really cool thing about being Catholic is that wherever you go to mass, whether it’s in the good ol’ USA, or half way around the world, you always know what’s going on, even if you don’t speak the language. We’re about three months into the “New Translation of the Roman Missal”. Some of the [...]
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When I set out to list 40 reasons why it’s cool to be Catholic I reverted to the ancient, low-tech method of using index cards. I listed each reason on its own card with the intention of sorting them in order of importance. I ran into two problems. First, over a period of a few [...]
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We Catholics have been taking a lot of heat lately. As Philip Jenkns wrote in his book The New Anti-Catholicism-The Last Acceptable Prejucice, our society sees nothing wrong with anti-Catholic bigotry. In fact, our secular media participate in it and encourage it. In an interview on EWTN, Cardinal Timothy Dolan pointed out that he’s often the target [...]
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Preventive medicine: Medicine designed to avert and avoid disease. MedicineNet.com “I don’t know about you, but I never considered a child to be a “disease”. Sadly we live in a world where many people consider that to be the case, including our federal government. The defenders of the Department of Health and Human Services‘ birth control mandate [...]
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This afternoon Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told Mark Reardon of KMOX radio that she definitely supports the Department of Health and Human Services birth control mandate for religious institutions. She made the bizarre statement that free birth control for all women is the leading method to reduce the number of abortions in the United States. [...]
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We have a letter today from Archbishop Carlson. He writes: February 1, 2012 Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I write to you concerning an alarming and serious matter that negatively impacts the Church in the United States directly and that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith. [...]
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Here in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, our Archbishop, Robert Carlson, has written a pastoral letter which is to be read in every parish. The topic is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate that all employers, including Catholic employers provide insurance coverage for artificial birth control, abortion, and the morning-after abortion pill. [...]
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