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Off the Shelf 131 – Jeannie Ewing Parenting is tough. Wouldn’t it be great if it came with a manual? Well it does! Jeannie and
“Jetzt leidet das Alte Testament für das Neue”. It is for the New Testament that the Old Testament is afflicted today. (Sister Mirjam Michaelis, friend and
Thousands of young adults owe their very existence to ordinary nurses and doctors in a public hospital maternity wing. Years ago, everyone in the neonatal
Saint Rocco School, an urban Catholic grade school and childcare center in Cleveland, Ohio, needed a principal in mid-November last year when the current principal
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Once a month I have the privilege of visiting men at our local prison for two hours. I go by myself and have free reign
Yes, he did it. In a majority legal opinion issued in May, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas put a stick in the middle of
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As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Call no one on earth your father;
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Common Protestant objections to Catholicism are presented as scriptural, when in fact they are misinterpretations, which render scripture inconsistent. The beauty of Catholicism lies not
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