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I found two rather sharp Catholic reactions to President Obama being awarded Nobel Peace Prize…This very same prize that Mother Teresa did win for her service to the poor of India, and that Pope John Paul II didn’t win for his two decades of actual peacemaking around the world.
Human Life International President Fr. Tom Euteneuer has this [...]

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Catholics who live their faith in full obedience to the Magisterium of the Church – should be on fire. This doesn’t mean that they preach on street corners or knock on doors handing out fliers, but that they make Jesus Christ present in their daily lives. This is Catholic evangelization, and the world needs much [...]

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It’s been said that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in the west. And whenever you hear someone bashing the Pope or the Catholic Church, it’s always the same myths and lies. Let’s dispel the top ten biggest myths about Catholics and the Catholic Church:

Catholics are Full of Guilt: I remember a ’90s rock band [...]

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When it comes to Catholic children, or children of any faith for that matter, it is the parents who decide what children will and won’t learn – not the government. Catholic and Christian parents must ensure that their children opt out of sex education classes, which teach values and practices that are opposed to Christian [...]

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Multiculturalism means many things to many people, but it’s probably fair to sum it up as the idea that all cultures are good, equal and that one must accept that Renaissance-era Italy, for example, is no better than say, pre-colonial Aztec culture. This is an oversimplification, but we’ll start with that. Multiculturalism is taught on [...]

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In our last blog on we began a Catholic look at “Imagine,” the canonical pop song by the talented John Lennon. The intention is not to attack John Lennon or pop music, but to examine a song that is an anthem for people who believe religion, dogma and authority are obstacles to peace and justice. [...]

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The Beatles‘ front man John Lennon is rightly appreciated as one of the great songwriter’s in pop music history. He also deserves real praise for his efforts at promoting social justice and his concerns about war. Yet Lennon was also a product of his age, and the counter cultural leaders of the 1960s mistook licentiousness [...]

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