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Dear catholic.com visitors: This Catholic Answers website, with all its free resources, is the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices. We receive no funding from the institutional Church and rely entirely on your generosity to sustain this website with trustworthy, accessible content. If every visitor this month donated $1, catholic.com would be fully funded for an entire year. If you’ve never made a gift, now is the time. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar this week only. Thanks and God bless.

Scott Powell

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Scott Powell is Director of Scriptural Theology at the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought, an outreach to the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also an adjunct professor at Denver’s Augustine Institute who has been teaching theology and the Scriptures to all ages for over a decade. He and his wife, Annie, are the directors and founders of Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic adventure program for youth based in the Colorado Rockies. Scott is currently a PhD candidate studying Scripture at Maryvale Institute/Liverpool Hope University in England.  He, his wife, and their two beautiful children live near Boulder, Colorado.

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