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Bring Them Back

How Your Parish Can Reach Out to Catholics Who Have Walked Away

There are some 20 million lapsed Catholics in this country, yet outreach to them has been scattershot at best. Who are they? Why did they leave? How do we get them back? Here is practical advice for setting up an effective apostolate in your parish.

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Are Catholics Coming Home?

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Search and Rescue

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Why Catholics Leave

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Why Young Catholics Leave

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Where to Learn More

Feature Article

War and Capital Punishment

Can We Agree to Disagree?

Why Cardinal Ratzinger wrote that war and capital punishment are different from abortion and euthanasia.

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The Catechism on War

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The Catechism on Capital Punishment

Feature Article

Should We Call Joseph the Father of Jesus?

Although he is not his biological father, Joseph is the father of Jesus through adoption, by the choice of God, and by marriage to Mary.

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Why We Have a Ministerial Priesthood

You can demonstrate that the apostles, elders, and bishops of the New Testament functioned as a ministerial priesthood. If it walks like a duck . . .

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It Was Greek to Me

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Binding and Loosing in Greek

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Worth doing badly.
By Karl Keating

Letters

Step by Step

Did Catholics add to the Old Testament?
By Kenneth J. Howell

Brass Tacks

Apologetics: real people, real concerns.
By Jimmy Akin

The Fathers Know Best

Private revelation.

Damascus Road

A Lutheran’s longing for the Eucharist leads him to the Church.
By Tim Drake

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