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Good News – Raised Catholic episode 16
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Deep Water – Raised Catholic episode 12
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 12: Deep Water Well, hey friends. As we are rebuilding our faith foundation, brick by brick, we will at times meet questions without any neat answers, and this is one of those days. Today we’re talking…
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Is It Okay to Question? – Raised Catholic Episode 4
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 4: Is it Okay to Question? If you were born and raised Catholic, you may have received and internalized a message about the authority of the Church and its teachings and even of its clergy and…
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Who Are You? – Raised Catholic Episode 2
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 2: Who Are You? Well, hi friends. If we are rebuilding a faith foundation, we’ll have to start with one of the big questions: Who are you? Many of us who were raised Catholic might…
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Notre Dame – Raised Catholic Episode 1
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To hear the podcast click here. Today is episode one. Notre Dame In April of 2019 a devastating fire hit the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It was a massive news story, maybe you remember it. And since that day, with a huge investment of…
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February
February is my favorite month, but it hasn’t always been that way. In the last few years, I’ve noticed that I like December far less than I had before and that by September, I feel a decided shift toward negativity. Today I looked at the recently picked tulips scattered around my home curated in their vases, noticed…
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Theology of the Red Pants
Whenever my mother took me clothes shopping as an adult, for my birthday or Christmas, she’d watch me head straight for the neutrals and slowly shake her head. She lifted up the versions of the sweater or the jacket that I had picked, but these were red, purple, yellow, or green and she’d implore me to just…
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Raised
Have you ever heard someone say they were “raised Catholic?” or were you raised Catholic yourself? Me too. There’s a lot of us, “raised” from birth as “cradle Catholics”. Strangely, you hear these descriptors far less among people of other faiths. I don’t often hear about people who were “raised“ Jewish, or of “cradle” Protestant Christians or Muslims. The idea…
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Salt
Last week I was on my way to an outdoor mass when the skies began to look threatening. Sure enough, as I pulled up, people were headed inside due to impending rain, and I found myself in overflow, socially distant seating downstairs in a church basement. Happy that the parish took such care to keep…
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