Category: Catholicism
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My Experience with Amy Barrett
Many of my friends and family have asked my thoughts about Amy Coney Barrett since her name started being circulated as the next Supreme Court justice because I had her as a professor at Notre Dame Law School. While others are much more qualified to give their inside impression of her (such as NDLS professors…
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Thoughts on the Arrest of My Parish Pastor for Sex Trafficking
Last Tuesday, the pastor of my parish, Fr. Michael Zacharias, was arrested for sex trafficking. He seemed like a nice and normal person. He did not come off as creepy. I knew him casually in the way most active parishioners knew him. Talks in confession, his homilies, questions after Mass. I liked him. In Findlay,…
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Fortitude: What It Is and Why You Need It
Fortitude is the cool virtue. Fortitude sells. It is fortitude, also known as courage, strength, bravery, grit, etc., that is the virtue at the heart of virtually all action movies, adventure novels, and RPG video games. Fortitude propels John McClane to the top of Nakatomi Plaza to battle terrorists in Die Hard. Fortitude drives Sam…
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