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		<title>Burden of Being a Good Reformer: Protestants and Birth Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Gonnella</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the matter of the much-discussed HHS “contraception mandate,” the violation of our God-given, constitutionally protected rights is the principal matter at hand. These rights, of course, are based on our duty to follow the moral law. All individuals of whatever religious conviction should speak out against this coercion by the state that violates our free exercise of religion. Among those individuals, our separated Protestant &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/the-burden-of-being-a-good-reformer-protestants-and-birth-control.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fight Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Philosopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s lesson in how to fight grace comes from the Reformation tradition: Every year I tell my Reformation history class that Roman Catholicism is, at least in the West, the default position. Rome has a better claim to historical continuity and institutional unity than any Protestant denomination, let alone the strange hybrid that is evangelicalism; in the light of these facts, therefore, we need good, &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/how-to-fight-grace.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moslems Do Still Convert, but Salvation Comes with a Heavy Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moslem conversions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Moussaoui]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How sad it is that so many of us Catholics take our gift of Faith for granted! After reading the astonishing story of Joseph Fadelle and his wife, I am sure, like myself, your soul will feel shaken over its lack of gratitude and complacency. We could have been born Iraqi Moslems and, from fear alone, never bothered to look into the Catholic Faith. I &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/moslems-do-still-convert-but-salvation-comes-with-a-heavy-price.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Law of Causality and Sola Scriptura</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Gonnella</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cause and Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law of Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sola Scriptura]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do not expect that the following argument is going to win a Protestant to the Catholic Faith. I have learned from St. Thomas Aquinas that reason has its limits in persuasion, and when reason reaches the wall, Grace is what pulls it over. My reasoning here is akin to the reasoning to God&#8217;s existence, namely, that it offers a proof that will not necessarily &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/the-law-of-causality-and-sola-scriptura.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Preparation</title>
		<link>http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html</link>
		<comments>http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Lady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[«Ad Rem» A Weekly Email Message from the Prior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mystery of the Immaculate Conception is not something on the borderlands of the Christian religion; rather, it stands front and center in the true Faith. This is because the Immaculate Herself is so wrapped up in the divine decree for the redemption of men, that her perpetual sinlessness and fulness of grace form a continuum with what the faith teaches about Jesus (Christology) and &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Story We Live By and the Foundations of Our Faith:  Implications of the Incarnation and of the Bethlehem Nativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Robert Hickson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally authored 13 December 2003, the Feast of Sancta Lucia] At this time of the Christian Feast of the Nativity, when we are also expectantly considering the coming year of 2012 (as was so in 2003) and the pressures of deepening war and religious conflict, we more openly allow ourselves to consider the foundations of things. Did the Incarnation happen? Or was it an illusion, &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/the-story-we-live-by-and-the-foundations-of-our-faith-implications-of-the-incarnation-and-of-the-bethlehem-nativity.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther: &#8216;A True Heretic&#8217;</title>
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		<comments>http://catholicism.org/martin-luther-a-true-heretic.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Polemics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The words are not mine, but the Pope&#8217;s. In his bull condemning the errors of Martin Luther, Exurge Domine, Pope Leo X described his subject as &#8220;one whose faith is notoriously suspect and in fact a true heretic.&#8221; Yet Catholics are not ashamed to speak well of this heresiarch who wrought such havoc in Christendom. Those interested in Catholic-Lutheran exchanges can read a little back-and-forth &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/martin-luther-a-true-heretic.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Mugabe: Catholic Apologist?</title>
		<link>http://catholicism.org/zimbabwes-mugabe-catholic-apologist.html</link>
		<comments>http://catholicism.org/zimbabwes-mugabe-catholic-apologist.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Philosopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philosopher has no dog in the race of Zimbabwean politics. (You can all breathe a sigh of relief now.) Therefore, agreeing with President Robert Mugabe on a religious point need not be taken as an endorsement of a man considered to be dictatorial. When the Druid who heads the C of E complained to the African strongman about some Anglican-on-Anglican violence associated with a &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/zimbabwes-mugabe-catholic-apologist.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://catholicism.org/the-priesthood-of-the-roman-catholic-church.html</link>
		<comments>http://catholicism.org/the-priesthood-of-the-roman-catholic-church.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catechesis and Fundamentals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Scripture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible teaches that Christ had ambassadors or agents (His bishops and priests) who represent Him in this world. 2 Cor. 5:20: For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting you, be reconciled to God. 1 Cor. 4:1: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God. John 20:21: He &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/the-priesthood-of-the-roman-catholic-church.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Unlikely Apologetic</title>
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		<comments>http://catholicism.org/an-unlikely-apologetic.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge is not among my favorite theologians. No, the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, doesn&#8217;t inspire me with her contributions to sacred letters. But her column, Why Gays and Lesbians Should Never Argue Scripture, does have some — doubtless unintended — apologetical value.  She brings up an interesting back-handed refutation of Sola Scriptura. &#8220;I &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/an-unlikely-apologetic.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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