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Do Catholics Believe in Ghosts?
When I was ten years old I had a direct encounter with a ghost. My brother and I were playing…
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The Blessed Sacrament Gives a Foretaste of Future Glory
At the conclusion of his brilliant essay, The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis wrote, “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself,…
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Feast of the Holy Cross
Terrorism is nothing new. It’s probably as old as the human race. In fact the cradle of civilization, now Iraq,…
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Solemnity of the Assumption
I once asked a college theology class if anyone could explain the doctrine of the Assumption. A student replied, “Yeah,…
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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?
Some 22 years ago when I was being catechized, preparing to enter into the Church, I was much troubled by…
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Jesus and the Dead Gorilla in the Looking Glass
Two radically different strains of Americans emerged over the weekend in response to the Cincinnati Zoo killing a gorilla in…
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Running to Win the Spiritual Race
William Shakespeare famously wrote “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” and so it…
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Trinity Sunday: Is it Relevant?
Many are ready to give a polite nod of some sort to Jesus of Nazareth. Most honor him as a…
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They’re All With Us
We as Catholics believe that at death our material bodies are temporarily separated from our non-material souls until the end…