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Poverty in America Awareness Month

I recently saw on the USCCB website that this month is Poverty in America Awareness Month. I would just like to ask anyone that is capable to make some form of donation to a local charity that helps the poor. If you are unable to make a finical contribution to an organization, …

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Forgiveness and Why We Must Forgive

“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.” Pope John Paul II I have writing about this topic in the past on the posting entitled “Why Must the Good Die Young?”. But I do feel it …

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Prayers for Gay People

I recently came across these prayers on the Ministry to Lesbian and Gay Catholics website. The Ministry to Lesbian and Gay Catholic is an organization founded by Cardinal Roger Mahony and is based out of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Note: The Ministry to Lesbian and Gay Catholic has been …

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Ending the Year Right

It has been a few weeks since I lasted posted a blog entry, but I do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 is even better for you than 2009. This posting is going to be just to give some updates on things going on in my life. I have …

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Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan Speaks of Gays and Hell

Today I was surfing around the Internet and came across an interesting article about a statement by Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico. According to the Brisbane Times, an Australian newspaper, Cardinal Barragan stated “Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven and it is not me who says this, …

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Did Jesus Encounter a Gay Couple?

A few years ago I purchased a book called What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. The book is written in a gay friendly manner and explains some alternative thinking to what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of homosexuality. Mr. Daniel A. Helminiak is a …

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Starting Luke 18:1

A few weeks ago I mentioned I was beginning to start work on a new website. Recently I purchased the domain name for it and will be working on it for the next few weeks. I am hoping to have the site finished no later then the end of the year (2009). …

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My #1 Challenge with being both gay and Catholic

There are many challenges to being a gay Catholic, but I think the biggest one I struggle with is balancing being gay with being Catholic. What I mean by this is these two things do not seem to exist in the same world. You have your gay scene, where being good looking, …

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Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II

I found this picture on another website, and thought it was just a great picture. I wanted to share it on my blog. The blog I found it on is Father Forgive Us. I don’t think 2 greater people have lived in my life time as these two individuals.

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Viewing life through a picture frame

During the last Courage meeting, the priest laid down a picture frame on the table. He explained that the picture frame represented a box. The table represented the world. The box that he started talking about was the box many of us get caught up in. It’s the box that we start …

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