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2024-04-29T09:11:29-07:00

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New Age Movement and Being Spiritual But Not Religious

Last updated on: April 29, 2024 at 9:11 am By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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The New Age Movement is one of the most powerful and surreptitious dangers to Catholics today. Sherry was someone who succumbed to the dangers of the New Age Movement. She had been raised in a Catholic family, received all the sacraments, and had even gone to Catholic school in her K-12 years. However, she never felt a personal connection with Jesus. Sherry had received the sacraments but not the Gospel. It took her until the age of 38 to recognize... Read more

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2024-05-06T09:41:31-07:00

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Roots of the Radicalization of the Protestant Reformation

Last updated on: May 6, 2024 at 9:41 am By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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What is the difference between Catholicism and Protestant Christianity? To summarize it in one phrase, Catholicism is the Thing against which Protestant Christianity rebels. I have a lot of compassion and admiration for our devout Protestant brothers and sisters. However, the reason I am a Catholic is because I hold a firm conviction that the way they formulate their identity is flawed on a foundational level. It seems unfortunate that they let their identity rest on the fact that they... Read more

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2024-04-26T22:21:50-07:00

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Artificial Intelligence, Pope Francis, and the G7

Last updated on: April 26, 2024 at 10:21 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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Artificial intelligence is a hot topic and Pope Francis has spoken about it frequently lately. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, announced that Pope Francis will participate in the upcoming meeting of the G7 nations to speak about the issue of AI. It might surprise us that the Pope will be speaking there. This will be the first time that a Pope participates in the work of the G7. To justify his presence, Giorgia Meloni cited the example of Pope... Read more

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2024-04-27T10:00:51-07:00

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Catholics, Culture, And Community

Last updated on: April 27, 2024 at 10:00 am By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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During the Second World War, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, would gather with friends from university to declaim and act out famous literature to celebrate their Polish heritage. They founded the Rhapsodic Theater as a means of cultural resistance against the Communist regime after the war. The Soviet Union wanted to erase Poland and by clinging on to their heritage and culture, they avoided losing themselves in the myriad of Soviet republics. They had a strong sense... Read more

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2024-04-25T17:29:32-07:00

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Upping Your Game at Mass And Living the Offertory

Last updated on: April 25, 2024 at 5:29 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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Living the offertory of the Mass as a layperson can be challenging. Do you ever feel that you are just “watching” the Mass and that the priest is the protagonist? If that is your attitude, it becomes far too easy to “zone out” during Mass. It seems hard enough to just get to Mass, and we may ask ourselves, do I really have to pay attention the whole time? I get it – it can be hard just to be... Read more

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2024-04-23T20:47:00-07:00

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What Determines A Person’s Worth

Last updated on: April 23, 2024 at 8:47 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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By looking at the role of human dignity, Dignitas infinita helps us understand what determines a person’s worth. The recently released document places human dignity as the foundation of what is appropriate and inappropriate human behavior. By doing so, the Church shows herself to be mater et magistra, mother and teacher. Parents do essentially two things for their children. They express unconditional love and instruct on the differences between good and bad behavior. The recent papacies of Pope Benedict XVI... Read more

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2024-04-20T20:17:20-07:00

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Death Squads, The Good Shepherd, And Fr. Stanley

Last updated on: April 20, 2024 at 8:17 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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We need a Good Shepherd, not a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We are plagued in our modern society by people who pretend to guide others but are only looking out for themselves. Fr. Stanley Rother was a priest who stood between the wolves and the faithful he had been called to serve. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. He stands between them and the wolves. Fr. Stanley Rother was a priest from Oklahoma City who went... Read more

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2024-04-16T19:22:23-07:00

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Dignitas Infinita and the Four Types of Dignity

Last updated on: April 16, 2024 at 7:22 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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The document Dignitas infinita, recently published by the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, establishes a strong intellectual foundation for human dignity before delving modern trends that we can identify as offenses to humanity. As prefect of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Fernández is the author of the document, even though Cardinal Ladaria began the work on it around five years ago. The opening paragraphs give the impression that the moral judgments will derive from... Read more

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2024-04-11T20:59:25-07:00

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Infinite Dignity: Seemingly Opposed Theologies Come Together

Last updated on: April 11, 2024 at 8:59 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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The recent document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on infinite dignity offers a unique point of theological convergence between the pontifical programs of Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. Pope John Paul II put the figure of Christ as model of humanity very much at the center of his pontificate, underlining this with his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis. In fact, we could argue that the fundamental phrase of his pontificate resides within this document when... Read more

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2024-07-06T16:05:55-07:00

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The Pope On What Should Offend Us

Last updated on: July 6, 2024 at 4:05 pm By Fr. Nicholas Sheehy, LC

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We live in a world of people who enjoy being offended. The greatest sin is not to offend someone. And yet, we live in a society that loves to be offended. However, are we offended by the right things? The latest document from the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith teaches us how to be offended. Much of the secular news media is hostile to the latest document coming out of the Vatican. Those who seek to not offend anyone... Read more

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