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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.

God knows we are somewhat lost - at least, not at home.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Reform Yourself Before You Reform the World

There seem to be a lot of people who want to reform the world lately. I often wonder if they are spending as much time focusing on reforming themselves. As the saying goes, we must be the change we wish to see.... (www.catholic365.com)

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9 Lessons Tom Brady Taught Me

Back in another career, my third, I ‘met’ Brady. Everything was brand new: The marriage, the career, the faith and football.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Reconciliation For the Faint of Heart

I disguise myself behind the curtain of anonymity. How long has it been since my last true encounter?... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Peace The World Cannot Give

If you are anything like me you will agree that we live in a hectic, busy world; that, in the course of the working week can raise its game to feel almost Manic.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Before giving up chocolate (again) for Lent, do an examination of conscience

Ash Wednesday is on the horizon; and soon Catholics everywhere will begin to think about their personal observation of the Lenten season.... (www.catholic365.com)

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We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.

Our own sins may not concern the eating of fruit, and a serpent may not be our tempter, but the dynamics between the serpent and the woman are key.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Dante's Lenten Journey

In Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the author journeys not only through the infamous Inferno and is miraculously allowed to enter into Paradiso, but Dante also travels through the realms of Purgatorio, a transitional place quite accepted by the medieval church which allows the souls not destined fo... (www.catholic365.com)

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There are times that whatever Father Ignatius says or advises is sure to be misinterpreted or misunderstood. Yet, his duty as a priest and guide to his flock is to teach them, as best he can, about God our Creator and His unrelenting love for us.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Cross, Cancer, and Conformity

I often do things backward. In my spiritual life, I was a Protestant first and a Catholic last. I was my own personal Counter-Reformation.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Trusting in God is a Beautiful Thing. It can also be Very Scary*

Having to make a life and death decision about your wife is gut-wrenching. Called upon to enter this decision making whirlpool of spinning thoughts, undulating emotions and plain old fear a second time for my second wife was downright traumatic. What kept me above water then and does again today is ... (www.catholic365.com)

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What are you DOING this Lent?

Asceticism was never meant to kill you. And neither was Lent. It seems people always like this concept of liberty and freedom, except they struggle to understand what it means.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Nothing in life is stronger than perseverance; time only promotes it, failure is afraid of it, negative people hide from it, and disease is affected by it. Even rocks give way to perseverance: because if water perseveres its impacts on the surface of a rock long enough, the rock starts to wither.

God knows you better than you know yourself. God demands faith from us, even when we believe we have none. He is willing to “pull” our faith out of us—we might even say that He is willing to test us—in order to purify our faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Two simple rules for the Mass

Recently, there’s been a lot of commotion on the internet claiming that praying in the orans position or holding hands during the Our Father, is wrong. But, I’ve been back to the Church for 33 years and those customs were well established when I came back.... (www.catholic365.com)

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You, to the Third Power

Welcome back to my Catholic study of Ephesians. It’s been a long time since I left you in a pause of expectancy between You, to the Second Power and You, to the Third.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Catholic Understanding of Grace

Anybody who has read the New Testament is aware that Grace from God is important for us as Christians, and in particular that it has a role to play in our salvation.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Mary and Joseph Find Jesus: The Jews will Find Jesus in the NEW Temple of God at the End

Behold, the Jewish People many times communed with God in the Holy Place, Jerusalem.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Tuesday mornings are always busy for me, working at an assisted living-type facility. Before noon on Tuesdays, I am responsible for: getting ready for Bible study, setting up for Mass, attending Mass, giving a break to the receptionist on duty, finalizing Bible study preparations and finally leadin... (www.catholic365.com)

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God never takes away anything that He doesn't replace with Himself.

Goodness emerges from a person – from within. It is not a product of what is absorbed in the sense that external forces and concerns do not make a person ‘unclean’ or necessarily good. We choose between these poles and this is a constant throughout life.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Art of Argumentation

For many today, “argumentation” is a bad word. It carries with it unsavory connotations, for instance, that the one who engages in argument is “not nice.” And this is seen as the greatest evil of our age, this lack of niceness.... (www.catholic365.com)

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