How to define hanging out vs. dating?
I attend a base chapel for Mass and a guy around my age (early 20's) just got stationed on base and has been attending for the last month. There's not more than two other young adults per week that...
View ArticlePrayers for my soul, heart, and mind
Hi, and thank you for taking the time to read this. For what will become obvious, I cannot ask anyone IRL for prayers, but am in desperate need, and so have turned to this forum for help. For years I...
View ArticleThe "fast" rosary
Hello all, By the grace of God, I've recently started praying the rosary pretty much every day. I've also dedicated myself to the morning and evening prayers of the divine office. This being a big...
View ArticleIf only Vergil was a Christian...
I couldn't think of the right place to put this, but since it's on one of the greatest Latin poets I'm hoping those who frequent "traditional Catholicism" would know the answer. I had heard a number of...
View ArticleItaly Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didnt Warn of Deadly Earthquake
Quote: Seven prominent Italian earthquake experts were convicted of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced to six years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically...
View ArticleIrans Political Infighting Erupts in Full View
Quote: A long and bitter rivalry between Irans president and an influential band of brothers in the political hierarchy exploded into the open on Monday, signaling new fractures in the facade of...
View ArticleInfused righteousness
Ok, I've been reading well enough Catholic material to understand that the main difference between protestants and catholics on justification is this issue of infusion. Catholics believe that the...
View Article"How Do You Help Someone Who Suffers from Severe Anger?" (advice from the...
This is at http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog...h-severe-anger
View ArticleCutting it off with boyfriend?
My boyfriend and I have been dating over a year and a half. We both attend the same college. He is Catholic. Makes it to daily mass as his schedule allows, absolutely no premarital sexual activity,...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Church
Im a little confused by what we mean when we say Pentecost was the birth of the Church, what about Matthew 16:18 and 18:17 which was before Pentecost?
View ArticleBirth defects skyrocket in Iraq after US invasion
(RTAmerica) Birth Defects skyrocket in Iraq after the US Invasion
View ArticleAP Exclusive: France to Send Drones to Mali Region
Quote: France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali's...
View ArticleWas this wrong and is there a need to confess when I go to confession?
Someone on Facebook posted their opinion on Obama, and others were basically calling her uneducated and standing up for Obama. One person who commented gave positive remarks about what Obama has done...
View ArticleElections
Let us all pray for Gods will to be done in this upcoming Election & may our gracious Holy Mother hear our pleads & answer us
View ArticleWhat if you miss your vocation?
What if you discerned the religious life but let yourself drift away? I was getting very serious about becoming a nun, but I already had a boyfriend and I got confused about which way God was calling...
View ArticleWhat moral ways are there to get someone to move out?
That is, what moral ways are there to cause someone to move? That's because this someone, is especially annoying and detrimental to family life, and has been for decades. Now other arrangements are out...
View ArticleOntario Pressures Catholic Schools Over Abortion; Provincial Government...
Earlier in October, Ontario's education minister told a reporter that Catholic schools in the province are not allowed to teach that abortion is wrong. However, now after Cardinal Collins of Toronto...
View ArticleHow is "free will" defined?
There are at least two different definitions. One is that the freedom of "will, wish, desire, etc..." is sufficient, even if that "will" cannot be put to practice. As long as the person's mind is not...
View ArticleMorals or Law?
When we are voting in order to enact a certain political or legal policy, should we vote entirely based on what would be the most moral and most charitable option, or should we also take into...
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