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Redeeming Work

Redeeming Work

Nearly every large company presents itself to potential employees as deeply concerned with helping the new employee achieve “Work/Life Balance.” ...
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Vaccines and the Common Good

Vaccines and the Common Good

The past 150 years has seen the greatest flurry of social change in the history of mankind. From the end ...
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Living Purgatory Now

Living Purgatory Now

The contested doctrines are almost always some of the hardest to live by. This is not because they are difficult, ...
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Becoming Men with Chests

Becoming Men with Chests

CS Lewis once described modernity as being inhabited by “men without chests.” His pithy characterization highlights the fact that men ...
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Following the Science of Roe v Wade

Following the Science of Roe v Wade

In a previous post, it was mentioned that emerging tyrants greatly rely upon sophistry in order to manipulate people into ...
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Truth and Reality

Truth and Reality

The devil is a one-trick pony. Everything he does to mankind is simply an echo of his original temptation to ...
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Preparation for Holy Communion

Preparation for Holy Communion

As mentioned in a previous post, the Church has long understood Sacramental Grace as operating in two dimensions. On the ...
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Avoiding Therapeutic Tyranny

Avoiding Therapeutic Tyranny

Because of the atrocities that were carried out under the Third Reich, there was a global awareness of the dignity ...
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The Eucharistic Marriage

The Eucharistic Marriage

Although the idea is no longer in vogue, the notion of the “marital debt” remains an important Biblical principle within ...
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The Tyranny of Sophistry

The Tyranny of Sophistry

In his book Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, Thomist philosopher Josef Pieper comments that the battle against sophistry is ...
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