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How to Make Sense of Germany

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When the Government Calls Human Embryos "Chattel"

Weekly Update

A judge in Virginia uses a precedent from the slavery era to rule on a case involving the custody of human embryos, revealing much about the modern mind's vision.

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Foundations
Domenico Ghirlandaio's "Calling of the Apostles"

The Rule of Faith

Christian faith puts us in relationship with the living God, and this relationship cannot be established simply by individual study and personal interpretation. What is the alternative?

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Enrichment

This week: The Irish island of Skellig Michael provided a remote and penitential setting for an ancient monastic community that sought a life of solitude, prayer, and self-sacrifice.

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Commentary

Science within the Church

Most Rev. David D. Kagan
Bishop of Bismarck
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Jesus is not weak. Jesus is the one who assailed the strong man, as he puts it in the Gospels, and he has taken on the enemy and won. He’s the one who is calling you to follow him.
Rev. John Riccardo Executive Director, ACTS XXIX
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Q&A

Facing Life's Hurdles

Dale Brown
Rev. Craig Vasek
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Commentary

The Myth of Chance

Rev. Shane Deman
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Two rowers
Commentary

The Christian Athlete: Me, Myself, and I

Dr. Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas
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Foundations
Investigate the first and foundational principles of the Catholic imaginative vision.
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Every society and individual views the world through a moral and spiritual imaginative vision...

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