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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7539625665576598828</guid><category>Head</category><title>Pope Francis Appoints Cardinal Tagle as Special Envoy to National Eucharistic Congress...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257739/pope-francis-appoints-cardinal-tagle-as-special-envoy-to-national-eucharistic-congress</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, as his special envoy to the National Eucharistic Congress in the United States, which will be celebrated in Indianapolis July 17–21. The announcement was made Saturday by the Vatican.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-597160130454809593</guid><category>Left</category><title>Synod boss Cardinal Hollerich claims infallible Church teaching “can be changed” but it has to be done “one step at a time”...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-hollerich-and-synodal-inevitability</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Ed Condon)</author><description>The relator-general of the global synod on synodality, Cardinal Jean Claude Hollerich, backed this week the incremental and “tactful” progress towards the ordination of women to the priesthood. The cardinal, who is also Archbishop of Luxembourg, was appointed by Pope Francis to oversee the collection and synthesis of discussion and responses during the multi-year synodal process, due to reconvene in Rome in October.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7207542794543727893</guid><category>Center</category><title>Vatican’s new norms will make it easier to decide on Medjugorje, says Cardinal Fernández ...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-05/fernandez-norms-supernatural-phenomena-medjugorje.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>“Regarding Medjugorje, no conclusion has been reached yet, but with these guidelines, we believe it will be easier to proceed and reach a conclusion,” said Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, during the press conference presenting the new norms for discerning presumed supernatural phenomena...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1499589663108022672</guid><category>Left</category><title>What You Need to Know About the New Vatican Norms on Marian Apparitions and Supernatural Phenomena...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/jimmy-akin-new-vatican-norms-on-supernatural-phenomena</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jimmy Akin)</author><description>On Friday, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released a document titled Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena. Accompanying the document was a note by Cardinal Victor Fernández — the head of the DDF — introducing it and explaining the reasons why it was written. This document revised, replaced and expanded a previous document...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5411441302005572613</guid><category>Center</category><title>In 60 Minutes interview, Pope Francis says his ‘conservative critics’ are ‘closed up inside a dogmatic box’ with a ‘suicidal attitude’...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-says-conservative-critics-have-a-suicidal-attitude</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In an interview with 60 Minutes airing this Sunday, Pope Francis takes aim at his “conservative critics” in the United States, reportedly saying a conservative is someone who “clings to something and does not want to see beyond that.” “It is a suicidal attitude,” the Pope said, as reported by 60 Minutes, which released a brief clip of the upcoming interview conducted by CBS’ Nora O’Donnell.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8676727909127138650</guid><category>Left</category><title>Vatican Issues New Norms for Investigating Apparitions, Supernatural Phenomena; Tightens Procedures and Introduces 6 New Possible Conclusions ...</title><link>https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/05/17/0403/00842.html#en</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>God is present and active in our history. The Holy Spirit, who flows from the heart of the risen Christ, works in the Church with divine freedom and offers us many valuable gifts that aid us on the path of life and encourage our spiritual growth in fidelity to the Gospel. This action of the Holy Spirit can also reach our hearts through certain supernatural occurrences, such as apparitions or visions of Christ or the Blessed Virgin, and other phenomena.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8368200536071050158</guid><category>Center</category><title>Full Text: Harrison Butker’s Commencement Address at Benedictine College...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 2024: I would like to start off by congratulating all of you for successfully making it to this achievement today. I'm sure your high school graduation was not what you had imagined, and most likely, neither was your first couple years of college. By making it to this moment through all the adversity thrown your way from COVID...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1010258647371459737</guid><category>Left</category><title>May the Holy Spirit guide and strengthen our personal Pentecost to speak and live well in Jesus’ name...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/personal-pentecost</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marlon De La Torre)</author><description>As he walked the earth after his resurrection for forty days, Jesus provided the gift of his presence to everyone who encountered him. This selfless Act of faith was part of Jesus’ post-resurrection mission to reassure His Apostles and disciples that they would not be alone after his ascension to heaven...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3938162762002841114</guid><category>Center</category><title>Changing How Our Children Do Dating...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/changing-how-our-children-do-dating/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>How our young people date is problematic; and I’m not talking about the mainstream habits of a ‘hookup culture.’ I mean young people from families with traditional values, where preparing for marriage and waiting for marriage are implicit, accepted goods. It is not surprising that we have a problem...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6455067035436607981</guid><category>Left</category><title>Servant of God Chiara Corbella’s Beatification Cause to Take a Step Forward in June...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257705/chiara-corbella-s-beatification-cause-to-take-a-step-forward-in-june</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo, the joyful young mother who died of cancer in 2012, will be one step closer next month to being declared a saint. The Diocese of Rome announced Wednesday that it will hold the closing session of the diocesan phase of her cause for beatification on Friday, June 21, at noon in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-902280508793825305</guid><category>Center</category><title>Which ‘spirituality’ is for you? Here’s a good place to start.....</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/which-spirituality-is-for-you-place-to-start/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jeff Mirus)</author><description>One of the confusing things about spiritual growth is how to figure out exactly what particular approaches or procedures we ought to follow to foster that growth. We may come across various particular devotions or spiritual exercises, some of which may...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8595165923173688375</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Be grateful’ might sound like an overblown slogan. But it’s a simple truth: Gratitude leads to joy...</title><link>https://danielgordon.substack.com/p/gratitude-a-matter-of-justice-and</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Daniel Gordon)</author><description>Gratitude makes us happier and healthier. That said, I have some difficulty expressing gratitude, especially as a person who tends toward the melancholic and the critical. This trait can be useful when writing academic papers, but it is often less helpful in close relationships. And so, while scientific studies on gratitude often impress me, they do not always move me to practice gratitude more.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4616243340898748674</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Carrington Lights, the News, and Kendrick the Intercessor?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-carrington-lights-the-news-and</link><author>null@newadvent.org (J.D. Flynn)</author><description>I hope a lot of you enjoyed seeing the aurora borealis over the weekend, if the phenomenon could be seen where you live. Here in Colorado, we’ve had a lot of cloud cover for the past few nights, and despite the solar storm that put them in reach for much of the country, the Northern Lights were never going to be especially visible from here anyhow.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4893200512629376751</guid><category>Left</category><title>The appointment of Venerable Jérôme Lejeune was one of John Paul II’s signature moves...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/venerable-jerome-lejeune-pope-john-paul-ii-may-13-1981-xex4a4ml</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>Signature appointments capture the essence of a pope. As St. John Paul the Great had Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger for doctrine and Cardinal Francis George in Chicago, Pope Francis has Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez for doctrine and Cardinal Blase Cupich in Chicago. Such signatures, which are good subjects for handwriting analysis, reveal a great deal about the authors.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1821959819492620562</guid><category>Center</category><title>What did St. Athanasius mean when he said, ‘God became man so that man might become God?’...</title><link>https://adoremus.org/2024/05/saint-athanasius-on-divinization/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Matthew Tsakanikas)</author><description>Athanasius is the one who almost single-handedly saved Christianity from abandoning the Apostolic understanding of the Trinity when Arius tried to sway bishops away from following the Council of Nicaea. The Athanasian kerygma (key proclamation of the Gospel) is a powerful statement that restores the real mystery of Christianity, a mystery that must be lived to be understood. But can he be trusted on this topic of divinization?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5830488424905997810</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Never Be Afraid to Profess the Catholic Church’: KC Chiefs’ Harrison Butker Triggers Media Frenzy with Benedictine College Speech...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/cna/chiefs-harrison-butker-chides-catholic-leaders-in-benedictine-college-commencement-address</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker offered some pointed criticism of Catholic bishops and priests along with advice to college graduates in his commencement address at Benedictine College on Saturday. Catholic bishops should be more like St. Damien of Molokai and less concerned about what civil and cultural leaders think about them...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6831395587989794098</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pro-Life Activist Lauren Handy Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison Under FACE Act...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257683/pro-life-activist-lauren-handy-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison-under-face-act</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pro-life activist Lauren Handy was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison in a Washington, D.C., district court today for her role in organizing a “rescue” at a local abortion clinic. Attorneys from the Thomas More Society who are representing Handy said they will appeal her conviction. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5714617351810206488</guid><category>Left</category><title>Germany Now a ‘Mission Country,’ Bishop Bätzing Says Amid Declining Catholic Numbers...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257678/germany-now-a-mission-country-says-bishop-batzing-amid-declining-catholic-numbers</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The German Bishops’ Conference president has called Germany — a nation whose very history is entangled with the Catholic Church — a “mission country.”In an interview with the Society of the Divine Word’s German-language magazine, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg said: “We live in a missionary country when we realize that less than half of Germany’s citizens still belong to the Christian denominations.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9222150184517907807</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Lesson in Kenosis from the Solar Eclipse...</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/a-lesson-in-kenosis-from-the-solar-eclipse/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Damian Ference)</author><description>The Feast of the Annunciation and the solar eclipse happened on the same day this year, April 8, and it was one of the most memorable days of my life. Part of the reason for me writing this essay is to get all my thoughts out, because I can’t stop thinking about it, and I can’t stop talking about it. Even when I haven’t planned to do so, I wind up mentioning the eclipse in homilies...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3660609992740863075</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Be unapologetic in your masculinity,’ Super Bowl winning kicker Harrison Butker tells Benedictine College male students...</title><link>https://www.thecollegefix.com/be-unapologetic-in-your-masculinity-super-bowl-winning-kicker-tells-benedictine-college-male-students/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Super Bowl winning kicker Harrison Butker ripped into COVID lockdowns and pro-abortion Catholics, like President Joe Biden, during his graduation speech at Benedictine College.But he also encouraged students to be open to marriage and having kids, particularly directing his comments towards female students.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2596017433064646857</guid><category>Center</category><title>Scrupulosity: When Piety Becomes an Affliction...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2024/05/scrupulosity-when-piety-becomes.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Do you know someone who is VERY strict with their spiritual and moral practices, to the point where you think it might be a problem? Or, do YOU sometimes struggle with feelings of unworthiness of our Heavenly Father’s love? If so, this episode is for you. Scrupulosity is a spiritual and psychological affliction that can sprout from a desire to be pious and virtuous...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-437912121531703449</guid><category>Left</category><title>Father Robert Spitzer’s 4 Levels of Happiness and Your Path to Personal Flourishing...</title><link>https://respectliferadio.podbean.com/e/fr-robert-spitzer-the-four-levels-of-happiness-your-path-to-personal-flourishing/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>"There is so much good scientific evidence for God, the soul and transcendence that I wanted to include in this book. There's so much to include that wasn't available to previous generations," said Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., the founder and president of the Spitzer Center. A scholar, teacher, author and seasoned leader, Fr. Spitzer is a pre-eminently a theologian and philosopher...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1874821772173215777</guid><category>Center</category><title>Crime novelist Agatha Christie is often seen as stodgy, but did you know she became a surfing pioneer in her 30s?</title><link>https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/agatha-christie-surfing</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Think about surfing and you’ll likely come up with a mental image of tanned young men and women on California beaches, hair bleached by the sun and sporting ripped abs. But from a historical perspective, you might as well think of crime novelist Agatha Christie hanging 10 in a “skimpy” emerald-green wool bathing suit and leather booties. That’s because Christie was an early—if unlikely—English pioneer of the sport.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8626675090910103155</guid><category>Left</category><title>How We Got Concussions So Wrong...</title><link>https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/concussion-symptoms-signs-treatment-advice.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The first time Conor Gormally got a concussion, he felt as if he were standing on a ship at sea. A high school soccer player, he had decided to try out something new during his off-season: wrestling. His very first opponent caught him off guard, with a headbutt to the temple. “I stood up, then my horizon tilted to a 40-degree angle and I fell to the ground,” Gormally told me years later.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9149557206245597636</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Meets Head of Divided Syro-Malabar Church, Tells Kerala’s Faithful: ‘Unity Is a Duty’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-05/pope-francis-syro-malabar-liturgy-dispute-raphael-thattil.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Meeting with the head Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, which has been divided for a number of years by a fierce liturgical dispute, Pope Francis emphasises the importance of obedience to ecclesiastical authorities.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5213375320408800217</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Francis: ‘We Entrust Mothers to the Protection of Mary, Our Heavenly Mother’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257667/pope-francis-on-mother-s-day-let-us-pray-also-for-mothers-in-heaven</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Mother’s Day, Pope Francis entrusted all mothers to the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking everyone to remember to also pray for all the mothers who have gone to heaven.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7175165898164477776</guid><category>Center</category><title>What is love? Love is to will the good of the other. But what does that mean?</title><link>https://lovemeansmore.org/what-is-love/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>“I love you.” Imagine sincerely saying this to someone for the first time, and getting the response, “what do you mean?” In that moment, the stakes would be too high to pause for a calm, honest exploration of this question. Maybe the answer is obvious, though. Think of the far-reaching impact of sayings like “love is love”, “love is all you need”, and “love conquers all”. They’re practically cliches at this point...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2809771972749819302</guid><category>Left</category><title>Bishop Thomas Paprocki: Biden mocked the Catholic faith by invoking the Blessed Trinity in his pro-abortion message...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257660/bishop-paprocki-biden-mocks-catholic-faith-by-invoking-christ-in-pro-abortion-message</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, is accusing President Joe Biden of “making a mockery of our Catholic faith” after he made the sign of the cross while promoting abortion. Biden, who is the country’s second Catholic president, made the sign of the cross at an abortion rally in Tampa, Florida, more than two weeks ago. In his speech, the president criticized Catholic Gov. Ron DeSantis...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1302961706959712425</guid><category>Center</category><title>Beethoven, Garth Brooks and Tom Brady Converge at the Vatican...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/beethoven-garth-brooks-and-tom-brady-vatican</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>It was an inspired choice for the Vatican to hold its World Meeting on Human Fraternity in the same week as the bicentennial of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a sublime anthem and prayer for universal brotherhood. From the sublime to the ... well, less sublime; Garth Brooks and Tom Brady will be on hand, too.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6686946251062727494</guid><category>Left</category><title>10 Life-Changing Daily Rules of Life, From St. John XXIII...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/john-xxiii-10-rules</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In high school, I stumbled across The Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIII. Besides the knowledge that he convened the Second Vatican Council, was affectionately known as “Good Pope John,” and had a sense of humor, I had not known much else about him. His journal — which he began as a young seminarian — provides a glimpse into John XXIII’s spirituality as he himself once admitted...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7103745082289722553</guid><category>Center</category><title>Archbishop Fulton Sheen traced abortion and today’s moral chaos to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was right. Here’s why.....</title><link>https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-bomb-and-the-american-barbarian</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>To call the dropping of the atomic bomb evil does not mean that you hate America. Far from it; it is the most patriotic thing an American can do. American patriots should be able to be honest about their nation’s actions. Patriotism is an extension of charity, and any American patriot should build a nation filled with virtuous leaders rather than barbarians.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1924036292888522484</guid><category>Left</category><title>Did Egyptian monks pave the way for St. Patrick?</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/did-egyptian-monks-pave-way-for-st-patrick/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Phil Lawler)</author><description>The book opens like a mystery novel. The year is 2006. An Irish farmer, digging for peat, notices an odd shape in his bucket. Looking carefully, he discovers that it is a very old book. Bringing it to experts, he learns that it is a psalter, more than a thousand years old, written on papyrus, bound in leather...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8675301622333867694</guid><category>Center</category><title>Being a pilgrim is not easy, as Dorothy Day shows...</title><link>https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/being-a-pilgrim-is-not-easy-as-dorothy-day-shows/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Mills)</author><description>We once had a pastor who often, almost in every homily, described the Christian life as a “journey.” The word’s a good go-to image for the Christian life, but it’s not the best one. The Christian life isn’t just a journey, though, it’s a particular type of journey. By itself, the image says that you’re moving but not where you’re going and why...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1005291135396862039</guid><category>Left</category><title>Priest Plunges School Into Darkness to Save Children From Marauding Gunmen...</title><link>https://catholicherald.co.uk/priest-plunges-school-into-darkness-to-save-children-from-marauding-gunmen/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The quick thinking of a headteacher helped save the lives of sleeping students after armed extremists stormed a secondary school in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Father Emmanuel Ogwuche, principal at Father Angus Frazer Memorial High School in Makurdi, promptly switched off all the lights in the building after hearing gunshots outside, preventing the terrorists from finding their way inside the school...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-34611519780653708</guid><category>Center</category><title>Wise men listen when hypocrites speak. We’re all at least slightly hypocritical , but Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies.....</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2024/05/necessary-testimony-hypocrites-david-deavel.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Deavel)</author><description>“I have a question,” my student said ominously as he sat in the chair in my office. I braced internally and probably externally—my heart is worn on my whole demeanor. When he asked it, I was relieved: “How can I be a theology major and keep sinning?” You can’t go for long in Christian life without discovering what St. John Henry Newman meant when he said, “To know is one thing, to do is another; the two things are altogether distinct.”</description></item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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