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The Rocky Road from Doubt to Faith                                           Â
Thanks to my Irish Catholic mother and 12 years with the good sisters of six parochial schools and four more years at the University of Notre Dame, I am not among the 10% in...
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God, Atheism, and Becoming Like Little Children
Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven (Mt 18:3).
Though many of Jesus’s words might be subject to interpretation in various faith...
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The Universal Search for Affection – Looking For Love in Some of the Wrong Places
It probably begins in utero when hearing awareness first develops. The baby inside, safe and wet and warm, hears the noises of activity nearby, but at first they are just sounds. Later they may...
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Little Black Lives—Do They Matter?
Anyone who believes that God is the Author of all life and loves us unconditionally (and even many who don’t believe this) would instinctively endorse the notion that black lives do indeed matter. How...
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Notre Dame’s Decline
Dr. John Fisher reflects upon his time at Notre Dame in the 1960’s which, for all of its own cultural revolution, seems paradisical compared to our current campuses. What we are witnessing in the...
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Unnatural Family Planning
In a conclave of atheists, agnostics, and secular progressives, a seminar to discuss the human sexual drive would certainly speak about the most anatomically obvious purpose-- continuation of our species. Instinctive mutual attraction and...
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Misunderstanding Catholicism—A Primer for Catholics and Other Christians
 I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you,...
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Against Organized Religion
            In 1999 it was estimated that 24 million Americans—almost one in 10—do not admit allegiance to any particular faith denomination according to a four-year study of the religious orientation of adult residents of...
