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Before I was Catholic I often met ex-Catholics who did the standard schtick about “Catholic guilt” and told me all about how going to confession instilled in them this deep-seated guilt that they are only now working through. Blah, blah, etc. Sorry. Not buying it. I was raised in a

Last week we talked about the curious taboos that marked the Old Testament. As we discussed, such taboos are not really very strange to us if we think about it, which is why you did not start your day with a heaping helping bowl of nutritious insect larvae, despite the

I was talking with a friend the other day. He’s a fellow convert who (as is common with us) was wondering why on earth Catholics who don’t believe much of what the Church teaches stay. He was greatly puzzled about the tendency of many life-long Catholics to remain quite proudly