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Inverting Morality: Portraying Good as Bad and Evil as Good

Genesius August 20, AD2025 2 Comments

For centuries, western mythology portrayed dragons as murderous, greedy hoarders of treasure, destroyers of villages, and adversaries to virtuous heroes.  They were like Smaug in

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How We Know Truth, and Why It Matters

Nate Guyear August 30, AD2024 4 Comments

Dear readers, We have a clear moral and political dichotomy in America and throughout the western world. The political left is replete with politicians who

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Are Human Beings Inherently Good or Bad?

Gene M. Van Son April 4, AD2023 10 Comments

You may have heard the fable about the two wolves that live inside every person.  The story is usually attributed to the Cherokee Indians. The

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The Church is One in the Integrity of Life

Bob Drury July 8, AD2022 2 Comments

The Church is one in the integrity of the life of the Blessed Trinity, Whose life is shared with Man as sanctifying grace through baptism.

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The Church is One in the Integrity of Life

Bob Drury April 15, AD2020 2 Comments

The Church is one in the integrity of the life of the Blessed Trinity, Whose life is shared with Man as sanctifying grace through baptism.

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Evil and Reversion: How a Deist Became a Theist, Part III

Alex Wolke August 24, AD2017 3 Comments

As stated in the previous installment, I will be approaching the problem of evil. For me, the problem of evil was elephant in the room

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A Devotional: Conquering Evil with Good Through Prayer

Anne DeSantis June 3, AD2017 2 Comments

“Pray always, but not in order to convince the Lord by dint of words! He knows our needs better than we do! Indeed, persevering prayer

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The Eagle and the Rattlesnake

Pete Socks July 2, AD2016 No Comments

We often judge people don’t we? We put up invisible walls against those we don’t trust. Somehow we sense when someone is “up to no

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The Catholic Side of Disney

Anna Rose Meeds August 20, AD2015 48 Comments

  Growing up, I loved Disney movies as many children do. One of my dreams was to go to Disney World, but my family never

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Christianity “Found Difficult and Left Untried”

Anthony S. Layne July 6, AD2015 5 Comments

Of course, I mean that Catholicism was not tried; plenty of Catholics were tried, and found guilty. My point is that the world did not

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How to be a Hero to the Long-Suffering

Susan Anne June 8, AD2014 11 Comments

Everybody loves a story with a hero’s victorious ending.  Folks rally around watching with sustained interest dramatic battles between good guys and bad guys, or

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