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A Flawed Assumption
A Protestant friend of mine considered entering the Catholic Church a couple of years ago. She had a very good grasp of Catholic teaching, and tried to connect this with praxis by attending Mass at...
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The Point
One week ago today Catholics were celebrating a holy day of obligation, a solemnity honoring the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, into Heaven. Similarly, although today is not a...
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Way Out on a Limb
My father was raised Lutheran, although as far as I know he never attended a Lutheran church as an adult. He never attended any church at all when I was little, leaving my mother to take my sister and...
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Magnification
Many wannabe Catholics find one little-known nugget of Catholic teaching shocking but very comforting – shocking because they never would have guessed that it was so, and comforting because they think...
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The Power of Witness
When I was a Protestant looking into Catholicism, Carl J. Sommer’s enthralling history of early Christianity, We Look for a Kingdom, really made an impression on me. Sommer discusses many distinctives...
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Alone Most Immaculate
A huge misconception exists concerning how the Holy Catholic Church comes up with its dogma. This is not surprising – the world has its own way of deciding “dogma,” and the world assumes that it uses...
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Mama Wattn’t Skeered A’Nuthin
For the past 20-some years now, I have been a citizen of “Y’all” land, a world in which my habitual expression of the second person plural, “you guys,” sticks out like a sore Northern accent. “Hey” is...
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Mary, Did You No?
Back in my Baptist days I attended the church which was home to the lyricist of the popular modern-day Christmas song, “Mary, Did You Know?” The words to the song were penned in 1984; it wasn’t until...
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The Virgin Shall Bear God
From time to time I try to write about the truths of the Faith shared by Catholics and Protestants, the many doctrines on which we find ourselves in glorious agreement. This is not one of those times....
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This. Is. Big.
It is a perpetual wonder to me that this day manages to pass by unnoticed year after year – suffering pretty much the same fate as the instruction to bow during the Creed when we come to the Good News...
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