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How Are Your Fridays Going?
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How Are Your Fridays Going?

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by on Oct 29, 2019 in Apologetics, Canon Law, Catechesis, Cooking & Food, Evangelization, Featured, Health & Fitness, Live in Christ, Parenting, Resources, Society & Common Good, Women
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What are you doing this Friday? I’m asking about your penance, not that it’s my business, but the business of the Church is something I care about. And it seems that Friday penances largely disappeared along with the long lines outside Brown’s Fish and Chips every Friday. That was the fish restaurant in my neighborhood […]

The Meaning of Human Sexuality
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The Meaning of Human Sexuality

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by on Nov 06, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Evangelization, Featured, Marriage, Men, Women
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As the concept of gender grows ever more fluid (you can pick any one of 58 gender options on Facebook), it’s worth asking why God created humans as male and female. Bacteria have no gender and reproduce mostly by dividing their cells. Some species of fish are sequentially hermaphroditic, changing genders throughout their lifetime. Angels, […]

A Case Against Abstinence
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A Case Against Abstinence

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by on May 10, 2013 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Marriage
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I don’t really like abstinence. Wait. What? I certainly think restraint is valuable–I resist the kind of trips where you go to Target for two things and come out with ten. I try not to eat meat on Fridays. I teach Natural Family Planning (NFP). In some cases, however, particularly the case of sexuality, abstinence […]

The Missing Grace in Public School Abstinence Programs
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The Missing Grace in Public School Abstinence Programs

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by on Jul 25, 2011 in Education, Featured
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The chattering classes have focused fresh attention on what they perceive as that last definable sin: hypocrisy. They claim to have found it anew in Sarah Palin’s family, because her son — recently married — seems to have conceived his first child before exchanging vows. This has naturally led to heated discussions over the abstinence-based programs […]