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“My mother used to hold my hand over a red-hot stove and tell me that’s how hot hell will be,” Elizabeth* told me during our first meeting (*changed for confidentiality). “And if I ever lied, she would tell me that the Bible says lying is like the sin of witchcraft, so I must be a…
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Reading 1 Isaiah 49:8-15 Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I answer you, on the day of salvation I help you; and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, To restore the land and allot the desolate heritages, Saying to the prisoners: Come out! To those…
Five years ago, I picked up my sister Rita at the Kansas City airport. As we were driving away, I noticed a big mass of metal in the median. At first I thought something fell off a truck. But as I slowed down, I saw spotlights in the grass below it. I then realized that…
Before every Mass, it is appropriate, even necessary, for me to spend time preparing to approach God. In these moments, I need to examine the state of my soul in relation to the Divine. During every Mass, there are several opportunities for me to ponder the ways the Lord is moving close to me, beckoning…
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Francis was born at Paola, Italy and was educated at the Franciscan friary of San Marco there, and when fifteen became a hermit near Paola. In 1436, he and two companions began a community that is considered the foundation of the Minim Friars. He built a monastery where he had led his eremitical life some…
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The short answer to the question is this: To be a “credibly accused priest” is to meet whatever non-canonical criteria have been established by someone with authority in the chancery, and without due process. As there is no due process, … Continue reading → The post What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Credibly Accused’…
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Reliable information on near-death experiences (NDEs) is sparse; the topic is as mysterious as one might assume. Too much of what you find delves into the darkness of the New Age movement, which embraces aspects of the demonic such as psychics, mediums, and necromancy. Looking to science would also fail to provide insight into the…
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Jesus was informed of the unjust and tragic slaughter of His Galilean folks at the hands of Pilate: “Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices” (Lk. 13:1-19). You would expect Jesus to be irked by such wickedness on Pilate’s part, but He did not…
Reading 1 Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 The angel brought me, Ezekiel, back to the entrance of the temple of the LORD, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the façade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the right side of…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Department of Migration and Refugee Services, in collaboration with the National Association of Evangelicals, World Relief, and the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has released a report entitled “One Part of the Body: The Potential Impact of Deportations on American…