Monthly Archives: March 2009

Apostolic Visitation of the Legion

I am glad to hear that the Church is going to intervene and send apostolic visitors to the Legion. Look to the Church!

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Welcome Faith and Family Live Visitors

We were recently honored by Katie being invited to guest post on Faith and Family Live, so if you are joining us from that excellent collaboration, welcome! Katie wrote about how we met and married via Ave Maria Singles.  If … Continue reading

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I’ve Been Catholic So Long Now…

…that I’ve forgotten that most people think condoms are a good thing that will help solve the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Of course, they don’t help solve it, and in many ways they make it worse, just as Pope Benedict … Continue reading

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Fear, Fire, Foes! Fighting Irish, Awaken

I know that I am days behind on posting about the ND Obama news, but I feel obliged, as an ND alum, to voice my utter disgust with the University’s decision to honor President Obama at the 2009 Commencement.  The … Continue reading

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Another Atheist Convert

Wow, we are really becoming a dime a dozen nowadays.  Just joking!  Our friend, Jen, has been interviewed for the National Catholic Register about her conversion from atheism! There is always a first step that leads to belief in God. … Continue reading

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You Became a Christian Because It Comforted You

Some atheists have contended that people like me who convert to Christianity do so because they can’t hack it as an atheist and so turn to the “comfort” of religion “where everything that you need to believe is told to … Continue reading

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All Of These Roads Lead Me to Roam…

…bring me back home. – Caedmon’s Call, “Where I Began” Through other blogs I read, I have learned about two men entering full communion with the Catholic Church this Easter: 1. Journey to Rome: “Protestant Once, Anglican Now, Catholic Soon” … Continue reading

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So Grateful

So grateful for the gift of his life.  So grateful that thirty-one years today, his mother labored to bring him into the world.  So grateful that Our Lord raised him into an amazing man. I have a fabulous birthday gift … Continue reading

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A Doozy of a Prayer

St. Patrick certainly must have been quite an exorcist.  His famous prayer, written circa 377AD. Lorica I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through a belief in the Threeness, Through confession of the Oneness Of … Continue reading

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St. Patrick’s Day

What a difference one man can make in the history of a nation.  Brought as a slave to Ireland, he returned there as a missionary years later and brought the Gospel, baptizing nearly every person in Ireland before he died.  … Continue reading

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