Do you have a drug problem?

Much thanks to Jesse Romero: Are you a creative Catholic? “The Catholicpunk Manifesto” is my new book exhorting Catholics to apply their faith to change the culture for the better! Know someone, perhaps yourself, who might like Catholic devotionals for alcoholics? Please take a look at my books! “The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics” …

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Triumph and Sorrow

Earlier this week (September 14th and 15th) the Church celebrated two feasts which I had written about before in these two posts: Triumph of the Cross and Our Lady of Sorrows. I think it is intentional that these 2 feasts are linked by being placed a day apart. The triumph of Jesus on the Cross …

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Faith without works is dead

The Second Reading for the Mass for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time is a statement that faith in Jesus is no good if works do not spring from it: James 2:14-18: “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?Can that faith save him?If …

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September 5, 1995. My father died.

On this date in 1995 my father died. He and I weren’t very close, (“fathers and sons …”) generational and attitudinal differences separated us. As a result, I didn’t really grieve over his death. I mean, I was saddened and did feel the loss, but I wasn’t ripped apart by his death like I was …

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