Spirituality
Cristina Montes

Just Another “Halloween Debate” Article

Photo Credit: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=26899   I never had a clear position on whether Catholics can celebrate Halloween. On the one hand, most Halloween parties I have

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Life
Fr. Joseph Gill

Paybacks

“I’ll make you pay for this!” How many times have we thought this? Someone cuts us off in traffic, so we find a way to

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Apologetics
Noel Ethan Tan

Hell

James 5:1-6, Psalm 49, Mark 9:41-50 Hell is not just a theoretical possibility according to the Gospel reading on 24 May and many more passages

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Confession
Religion
Nathalie Fernandez

The Treasure of Sin?

Some of us (me definitely included) fall into despair sometimes when we believe that we are too damned. We detest sin — as we all

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

Degrees of Sin — Separation from God

Sin is not wanting too much, but settling for too little. It’s settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment. — Scott Hahn, First Comes Love: Finding

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Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen as a Gardener
Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

Sin, Slavery, and Identity

“Abuse (and the trauma that results from it) causes not only the anxiety of meaninglessness and the anxiety of guilt, but also the anxiety of

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Apologetics
Jean Elizabeth Seah

Good Works: Why We Do Them

O my God, I am heartily sorry that I have sinned against Thee. I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Hell in the Scheme of Things

Some years ago, I joined a group of friends in their college dorm lounge to enjoy a movie. While we watched the movie, I overheard

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Reality, Belief, and Hell

I’ve heard it opined by the occasional atheist that he not only believes that God does not exist, but actually desires to be right in

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