I Saw Satan Laughing With Delight…
Ray Sullivan
October 19, AD2025
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Satan will laugh with delight once he has convinced your intellect that good is evil and evil is good.
Happiness is More Than A Warm Puppy
Mark Belanger
October 19, AD2025
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Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz is credited with the phrase “Happiness is a warm puppy.” It was, perhaps, a foretaste of the internet meme. The phrase
Pilgrimage to Camino de Santiago
Alexandra Greeley
October 16, AD2025
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What is a pilgrimage? Many people may think of a pilgrimage as a journey to some celebrity destination. But for most Catholics, a pilgrimage is
Your Way of Acting Should Be Different from the World’s Way
Dom Cingoranelli
October 14, AD2025
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St. Benedict, in his rule for monasteries tells monks, “Your way of acting should be different from the world’s way.” (RB 4: 20) That’s good
Give Us This Day Our Daily Prayer
Deacon Greg Lambert
October 13, AD2025
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Our daily prayer, even more important than our daily bread, is vital in maintaining our relationship with God and neighbor. The two great commandments that
Bring Back the Celebration of Christopher Columbus Day
Dan Fitzpatrick
October 12, AD2025
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Nowadays, many journalists and public school teachers, along with the entire woke culture, focus solely on the negativities surrounding Christopher Columbus and not his positive
Distraction and Misdirection: The Demonic Shell Game
Gabriel Garnica
October 10, AD2025
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Two essential elements of magic are misdirection and distraction. These two elements enable the magician to perform all sorts of “magic” tricks. Confidence tricksters also
The Sin of the Century is the “Loss of the Sense of Sin”
Gene M. Van Son
October 6, AD2025
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Pope Pious XI saw it back in the early 1900s. And Pope St. John Paul II saw it still in 1985 – the loss of
Parallel Parables that Ask How We Measure Up
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer
October 5, AD2025
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I like to say that there are parallel parables in the Gospels for the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth Sundays of Ordinary Time in Year C. This
Kirk and the K of C
Todd Federici
October 4, AD2025
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Honestly, I knew nothing more on Charlie Kirk a few weeks ago because I only saw an “under-one-minute” video of him here and there over
Catholic Schools Denying Truth When It Comes to Human Sexuality
Dan Fitzpatrick
October 3, AD2025
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During my 40 years as a Catholic school educator, with 34 of those as a Catholic school principal, I witnessed a lot of disheartening change.
Why I Want to be a Catholic Writer
Tom Thomas
October 2, AD2025
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I was wondering what to do. You are no good at this, your writing quality is like a Whatsapp or Facebook post. The words uttered
Thoughts and Prayers and Tragedy
Timothy McHugh
October 1, AD2025
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With the recent horrific shootings at Annunciation Parish in Minneapolis, the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and many more; the topic of prayer has once again
Hope
Carol Monaco
September 30, AD2025
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I used to be an optimist, but not anymore. I am not worried, though. I have hope. Whether my change of heart has anything to
In Search of Virtue
Tom Collingwood
September 28, AD2025
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the recent school shootings in Minnesota and Colorado has put a focus on the vitriol and violence we see
The Road to Salvation is a Cross Road
Ray Sullivan
September 26, AD2025
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By picking up our cross and following Jesus and by cooperating with God’s grace, we can achieve our salvation.
Is It True or is it False?
Mark Belanger
September 25, AD2025
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.” This quote is the first line of Francis Bacon’s essay, Of Truth.
Be Careful What You See
Mary Ennis Meo
September 24, AD2025
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My friend used to sing a song to her small children that said, “Be careful, little eyes, what you see.” Singing it, she sounded joyful,
Thankful to God for Family
Diana Ragsdale
September 23, AD2025
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The life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux is an example for us of how our own family life prepares us for our individual vocations.
For 2,000 Years Catholicism Has Not Changed
Gene M. Van Son
September 22, AD2025
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For centuries every Catholic knew that Catholicism was the one true faith. They also knew that non-Catholics would probably end up in hell when they
A Death in the Family
Masha Goepel
September 21, AD2025
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My mother died at the end of August. She’d been diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and for the next four and a half years she’d
Bring Joy
Evangeline Lothian
September 20, AD2025
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On the Over-Seriousness of Today The current age, with its technologies, its wars, its uncertainties and anxieties, is a gloomy and worried age. Rates of
Offer Up Your Heart To God
Taylor Willis
September 18, AD2025
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As God’s people, we were all given free will to choose if we are for or against Him. A common question I hear often is
How Is Security at Your Child’s Catholic School?
Dan Fitzpatrick
September 15, AD2025
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In the wake of the horrific murders of Catholic school children at Annunciation School in Minneapolis, parents throughout the country are understandably concerned that a
