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How did the first Christians worship?

One of the neat things about being a Christian is our unique connection with all of the other Christians who have ever lived. The Christian life is not just a trendy cultural fad or some fleeting “enlightened” moment in history. It’s something that has stood the test of time and has been uniquely preserved. And we are all connected as one Body, not only with the other Christians living along side us on Earth today, but across time and space. [Keep Reading]

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How does the Birth Control Pill work?

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It’s amazing how many young women take a mysterious pill almost every, single morning…and don’t know what it is doing to their body.

The Birth Control Pill, aside from being contraceptive, fundamentally changes how a woman’s body was made to function. It basically tricks her body into thinking it is constantly pregnant. When it “works” it prevents a woman’s body from going through her completely natural and healthy hormonal cycle. Isn’t that funny? [Keep Reading]

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Do You Love Life?

I wanted to make a short video that might, in a small way, help people better connect the political issue of abortion to the reality of abortion. So I took a crack at it.
Our choices (and votes) have real-life consequences. Please watch my latest video below and let me know what you think of it. [...]

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A Catholic Response to the Sex Abuse Scandal

Many Catholics are a bit unsure about their Church these days. The sex abuse scandal within the Church – which has dominated headlines for the past decade – has left them speechless. There is no defending child abuse. And facing the reality that such abuse is happening within the only remaining bastion of orthodox Christianity [...]

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7 Steps to a Holier Life – by Mother Teresa

Anyone who’s followed Fallible Blogma for awhile knows that I love Mother Teresa quotes.
Here I’ve compiled seven of them (into seven simple steps) that help me every day. Try reading them daily (or weekly) to help keep priorities in order and life in proper perspective. No matter how many times I read them, I always [...]

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Never enough time? Maybe it’s not more time that you need.

“Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.” – Peter Kreeft
I had to read this one a few times to make sure I was understanding it properly. At first I was thinking, “yep, my lack of time leads to lack of prayer. I just don’t make enough time for prayer [...]

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Support a Catholic Speaker Month

First there was the Favorite Catholic Speakers Poll of 2009 where over 3000 of you voted (results here). From that sprang Support a Catholic Speaker Month. The goal was to create a rising Catholic tide on the internet that lifts all boats (websites, speakers, and all those who participate) by having a different [...]

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Saints – not Celebrities

One of the things I love about our Catholic Church is that it is in the business of making Saints – not celebrities.
As Catholics, we have a central authority and structured organization that unifies us. It is a saint-making machine.
Unfortunately, many non-Catholic Christians have no such unifying mechanism leaving them “belonging” to various preachers or [...]

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Why “get saved” once when it’s offered everyday?

The complete and full definition of something is often much deeper than the words that attempt to articulate it. In other words, how we define something may only express a mere part of the reality of the object being defined. That may be because we simply don’t know much about it yet. Or [...]

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Catholics on Faith and Works Clarified

What is necessary for salvation? Is it “faith and works” as Catholics teach? Or is it “faith alone” as many Protestants teach? Or do they mean the same thing? They might. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. Let’s try to clarify at the chance of a tiny ecumenical revival.
Here is the kind of belief [...]

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15 Tips for Going away to College

Well, it’s that time of year again. Those “kids” are all grown up and taking that next big step out into the world – college. And many of them will be leaving home for the first time to go away to school and take on the challenge all by themselves. Here are this year’s updated [...]

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Are Catholics required to go to Mass on Sunday?

The short answer: Yes. (CCC 2041-2042)
And not only are we required to go, but it is considered a grave matter of sin if we do not go (and otherwise reasonably could have gone).
From the beginning, the Church has always seen this as the primary (and bare minimum) fulfillment of the 3rd commandment: Keep holy the [...]

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Found difficult and left untried

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried” – G. K. Chesterton
Another classically awesome Chesterton quote.
There is a sense that Christianity is only old hat. It’s been around for so long and so many people, cultures, and even civilizations have tried it. Yet, [...]

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When does science say Human Life begins?

Pro-lifers are often criticized for their position that human life begins at conception. Many incorrectly think that this belief is based on some blind religious dogma, a scripture passage somewhere, or some stubborn need to tell women what to do with their bodies. All the while, this same opposition likes to pretend that [...]

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By the Light of the Moon

We can all agree that we want progress. The question is which way to progress? In an increasingly complex climate of colliding cultures, defining progress is far too much like defining which way is up while floating in outer space. The big difference being that the latter is entirely relative and the former only seems [...]

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What is a Christian?

We hear the word Christian used a lot these days in so many different contexts.
We hear politicians talk about having “Christian values.” We hear that this country was founded on “Christian principles.”
When somebody does something wrong somebody might say, “well that wasn’t very Christian of them, was it?”