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The Pentagon plans to livestream the December firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, which would be the first public execution in America in 90 years. The U.S. bishops called it “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death,” and the archbishop for the military told Catholic soldiers to ask to be excused.
Online, many Catholics are pushing back, pointing out that Scripture, the Church Fathers, St. Thomas Aquinas, and even popes once accepted capital punishment. So is the Church contradicting herself? Today we go through what the Church actually taught, how doctrine develops, the honest debate over the word “inadmissible,” and why even the strongest defenders of the death penalty in Catholic history never defended making it a spectacle.
Please pray for the victims of the Fort Hood shooting and their families.
Our Lady of Good Counsel, pray for us.
#Catholic #DeathPenalty #ChurchTeaching #CultureOfLife #AfterMass

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The Cornell 7 case is everywhere, and everyone from pop stars to politicians to Megyn Kelly has an opinion. I’m not here to argue the case. The investigation is ongoing and no one has been charged. I’m here to talk about what the reaction to it says about us, and what the Church actually teaches.
In this video:
What the case is about and where it stands
How commentators on the left and the right turned real people into political ammunition
True crime and the Eighth Commandment: rash judgment, detraction, and calumny
The sin of the bystander, and why we rarely confess what we let happen
The problem underneath it all: what casual sex has done to a generation
What we do as Catholics: the virtues to practice ourselves and teach our kids
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#Catholic #Cornell7 #MegynKelly #TheologyOfTheBody #CatholicParenting #AfterMass

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In 1571, the Ottoman navy was about to take the Mediterranean, and the whole Church was asked to pray the Rosary. Today we tell the story of the Battle of Lepanto: the wind that shifted, the 12,000 Christian slaves set free, and the vision in Rome. Plus the other times Catholics turned to the Rosary against impossible odds.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
#OurLadyOfTheRosary #Lepanto #Rosary #Catholic #AfterMass

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Every October, Catholics are told Halloween is a pagan festival in disguise. Today we look at the real history: how All Saints' Day spread from Rome, why early Irish Christians kept their feast of all saints in April, where the "Lord of the Dead" myth came from, how soul cakes became trick-or-treating, and how the Reformation and the twentieth century reshaped the night before All Saints.
All you holy men and women, pray for us.
#Halloween #AllHallowsEve #Catholic #AfterMass

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On her feast day, we look at what Jesus told St. Faustina about the final moments of life: the hidden grace He offers at the very end, the promises attached to the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and why you should never assume someone you love is lost. Plus, three simple things you can start tonight to pray for the dying.
St. Faustina, pray for us.
#StFaustina #DivineMercy #Catholic #AfterMass