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Traffic That Can Drive You Mad

Traffic engineers generally agree that the world's most chaotic traffic melee is not in Rome, Bangkok, or Cairo; it's in Tehran, the capital of Iran, which averages about five hundred accidents a day. Almost all but the newest of the city's three million cars have dents or scrapes.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Botched Suffering

Botched suffering: What an elegant phrase. Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel writes from France during the 1940’s...”have we ever thought that the fact of botching a small part of our daily suffering-whether it be by getting up with bad grace... turning up our nose at insipid food is of greater signi... (www.catholic365.com)

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The New Christian Crusade - Reclaiming PEACE

A peaceful world is not one which finds itself in need of peacemakers. It is a world filled with conflict, tension, violence, dissension, godlessness, and anger that needs Christ’s peace.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Do You Have To Belong to a Religion In Order to Have Moral Values?

The 2017 Gallup Poll entitled: “Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven Year Lows” noted that 81% of Americans believe that our country’s moral values are fair to poor; 77% opined that US moral values are getting worse; and these majorities feel that moral values have slipped to a new low.... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Very Moving Story of Holy Communion

Here's a very moving story that's still haunting us, blessing us and moving us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic/Christians and the Reality of the Grief Process

Hospice contacted me about two weeks after my wife had passed and asked me to join an upcoming Bereavement support group. It would be two hours a week for seven weeks.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Filter in Your Brain

"A great many people believe they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." Only a philosopher-psychologist like William James could have formulated that bit of wit.... (www.catholic365.com)

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What is True Love?

When God decided to redeem the world, He gave us His only Son, Jesus Christ. He gave us Himself to be born, be exiled, live, be killed, and rise from the dead for us. He gave up everything He knew for us and our salvation.... (www.catholic365.com)

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To Bury Saint Joseph

My husband and I are selling our home. One of the first things our listing agent asked was, “Have you buried St. Joseph yet?”... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Search for an Unexplainable Entity

It was Friday, September 9, 2083, and I decided to get away for several hours from the grueling quest my brothers and I had been searching all week regarding what really existed in the universe around us that has beguiled intelligent minds for many centuries. Is there life elsewhere in this vast an... (www.catholic365.com)

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If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix

In our own lives, how many times have we let our temper and anger get the better of us? How many times have we gotten into arguments where our ears were closed to all reason, though the other side may have had valid points? How often have we insisted on having the last word in an argument or disagre... (www.catholic365.com)

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Saint Ephrem the Syrian; "The Harp of the Holy Spirit"

Imagine it is Sunday morning and you are in your pew at church waiting for the celebrant's entrance. The organist hits the keyboard, you stand, the priest enters and everyone begins singing. Question; did you ever stop and ask yourself, who was the first person to sing at a Mass?... (www.catholic365.com)

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It Ain't Heavy - It's Just a Cross

When the burdens of life weight us down, we may feel at times that we are carrying far more than our own weight. From the time of Christ, society has given a name to these burdens - they're called crosses. Even before Jesus carried and died on his own cross, he told his followers, "If anyone would c... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Origins of the Pentateuch Made Simple

The term “Pentateuch” means five books. The Jews call it the Torah. It is after all, part of their Holy Scripture. Whatever name you call it, the term refers to the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, also known as the Old Testament.... (www.catholic365.com)

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World Views in Conflict

[In this week’s second reading at Mass, from the epistle to the Romans, St. Paul explained: “Through one man (Adam) sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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Fortunately, most of us are not called upon to lay down—or even risk—our lives for a friend, although we wonder if we’d have the courage to do so. Throughout history, ordinary people have proven they had extraordinary resilience and valor to protect other persons even if it meant risking or losing t... (www.catholic365.com)

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The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Every Christian is, by virtue of baptism, called to be a teacher.... (www.catholic365.com)

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St. Madeleine Sophie Barat; The Preemie Who Grew Up to Change the World

It was December 12, 1779 and Madame Fouffe Barat was seven months pregnant with her third child. She had been sleeping comfortably when screams and the smell of smoke awoke her. She sat up and saw the flames outside her window. They were coming from her neighbor's house.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stick-to-it-iveness in a Teflon World

Every culture has its own particular gestures for specific meanings - some of which may seem strange to us. But one of the few body language gestures that anthropologists recognize as being common to all nationalities and tribes on earth is the tossing upward of the hands as an expression of frustra... (www.catholic365.com)

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Poetry: "The Way"

It began in the Garden when You were seized; Continued with a crowd that insulted and teased. A rigged trial where You were ridiculed, condemned;... (www.catholic365.com)

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