Why Bother with Confession?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
When I became a Catholic at the age of 20, I loved the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Now, more than 40 years later, my behavior is morally acceptable, but I am tortured interiorly by inappropriate thoughts, lacking focus and concentration. While ...
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Quick Questions and Answers
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
Before my sister died of lung cancer, she quit going to church. I tried daily to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for her. Is it possible that she is in heaven? Yes, that is entirely possible. Each of us ...
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Praying My Way through Dementia
Gloria Hutchinson
February 26, 2020
As she faces daily torments of forgetfulness, hallucinations, and sleeplessness, this author finds strength and peace in prayer.
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Editorial: Follow Your Conscience
Susan Hines-Brigger
February 26, 2020
Conscience: ". . . a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. In all he says ...
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Film Reviews with Sister Rose
Rose Pacatte, FSP
February 26, 2020
Bombshell In August 2015, Fox newscaster Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) becomes ill as she prepares to moderate the Republican debate. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), who favors conspiracy theories, thinks she may have been poisoned. Kelly is criticized ...
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A Deep Wound
Pat McCloskey, OFM
February 26, 2020
How could God take my precious son at age 43 and yet allow rotten people who have stopped believing in God to keep on living? My son was a great Catholic and spent eight years in Catholic schools.
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