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October 28, 2005

The latest Catholic Carnival

Sorry I'm late this week, but the latest Catholic Carnival is up at my friend A Penitent Blogger's excellent site. This week's Carnival is focused around the them of "pillars" - it's worth checking out. God bless, Jay...

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October 24, 2005

Another disappointment in Boston . . .

It just breaks my heart to see the Boston archdiocese placing foster children with gay families. It makes me wonder if anyone working in the diocese has even read Pope John Paul's work. The road to hell is paved with...

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October 21, 2005

Saying What Needs To Be Said

Several months ago my grandfather passed away. I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to see him before he died and say many of the things I had always wanted to. Death causes us to pause...to reflect. Life is...

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October 19, 2005

A Year Old: The Catholic Carnival is Up

Check out the latest Catholic Carnival. This is the 52nd Catholic Carnival, so it's been about a year since we started, as Our Word and Welcome To It points out. Check it out. God bless, Jay...

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October 17, 2005

Spiritual Warfare: A Practical Guide to Ephesians 6:10-20

From time to time I assist with our local parish's youth group. Most recently, I have been involved in the Research & Development phase of planning the different meetings. The following are my notes on Spiritual Warfare. This really helped...

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October 11, 2005

Catholic Carnival LI: The Person in the World

Between the world and the Church stands the Human Person. Appropriately so, the posts this week seemed to focus on this tension and how we work with it: The World Veritas examines the evidence in Iraq: A Just War? Was...

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October 10, 2005

What Marriage and Parenthood Teach Us About Selfishness

As a father and a husband, if there is anything I have learned about myself it is that I am selfish. As a single, unattached man I often thought of myself as being very generous. I tithed, I helped out...

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October 4, 2005

This week's Catholic Carnival

. . . is up. Click here to check it out now. Worth the time . . . and the host's comments make it even better. God bless, Jay...

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