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A Crisis of Saints
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| Scandals are rocking Catholics in this country. Anti-Catholic rhetoric is at a fever pitch – indeed, maybe your own faith has been shaken. How should we respond to the horrific headlines? There's only one authentic Catholic response. |
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By Fr. Roger Landry |
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The Ironies of Grace
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| Self-proclaimed "chubby suburbanite" Mark Shea, a dangerous man? Robert M. Zins thinks so – all because Shea said in this magazine that Catholics and Protestants essentially agree on the idea of merit. The Dangerous Suburbanite responds. |
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By Mark P. Shea |
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Through the Intercession of Saints
One Man's Story of Healing and Reconversion |
| Crisis often brings us back to the faith in an urgent manner, and nothing is more critical than the grave illness of a baby. How such a crisis brought one man to truly understand an essential doctrine of the Church. |
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By John Allen |
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A Gospel in Stone
Notre Dame de Paris and the Three Natural Laws of Church Architecture |
| The landscape is littered with Catholic churches that look more like office buildings than places of worship. How to get back to a sense of the transcendent? Follow the three natural laws of church architecture. |
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By Michael S. Rose |
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What I Learned from U.S. Catholic Magazine
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| The author picks up a slick, mainstream Catholic magazine and shows how it betrays its biases against some of the teachings of the Church it professes to be part of. |
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By Philip Blosser |