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Angels

Announcement of Our Lord

Announcement of the Resurrection

Announcing Angels

Annunciation

Discerning Good / Bad Spirits

Guardian Angels

Human Events

Sharing Others Joys / Sorrows

Misc. / Announcements

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Answered Prayers Section Reflections

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Efficacy of Prayers of the Just

God Gives Good Things to Those Who Ask

No Prayer is Lost

Perseverance in Prayer

Sharing Others' Joy

Zacharias' Answered Prayer

Misc. / Answered Prayers

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Catholic Basics Section Reflections

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Advent

All Are Tried / Those Who Are Lost Could Have Been Saved

Angels

Apostasy

Canon Law / Church Courts

Catechesis / New Catholics

The Catholic Church [Pg.]

Catholic Church / Catholic Faith / Catholics

Divine Mysteries Exceed the Intellect

Hell / Eternal Damnation

Heresy / Heretics / False Teachers

Incarnation & Nativity of Christ / Christmas

Must Not Dissent From Any Point of Truth

Mysteries

Mystical Body

Name of Jesus

No Salvation Outside the Church

Now is the Time for Mercy

Now is the Time for Repentance

Obedience

Offerings / Support

Old Vs. New Law

One Must Not Do Evil That Good May Result

Original Sin

The Passion / The Cross

Revelation Was Completed With the Apostles

The State of a Soul at Death Determines Its Eternity

Suffering

Sunday / Holy Days of Obligation

Temptations

Thanksgiving

Those With An Upright Conscience Call Good & Evil By Their Proper Name

Tradition

Treasury of the Church

True Catholics / True Christians

Wrongly Thinking Evil of Another / Rash Judgment

Misc. (Catholic Basics)

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Catholic Book Review & Exchange Section Reflections

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Authorship / Editing of Written Materials

Bookcase of the Mind

Books Vs. the Cross

Duty to Submit Pernicious Books for Judgment

Ecclesiastical Examination of Written Materials

Effects of Good Books

Good Books Are Our Friends

Great Literature

Injurious / Odious Writings

Learning and Love

Liberty / Written Materials

Literature in the Home

Modernist Writings

On the Writings of St. Francis de Sales

Popes on the Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas

Reading Recommendations

Reading Secular Literature Before Holy Scripture

Rejected Writings

Reparation / Misuse of Communications

Spiritual Reading

St. Francis de Sales Declared Patron Saint of Writers

St. Jerome and Books

St. Thomas Aquinas on His Own Masterful Writings

Traditional Obligation of Catholic Booksellers

Warnings / Cautions Concerning Written Materials

We Should Not Look to Heterodox Works

Writings to be Rejected / Shunned

Misc. / Written Materials

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Catholic Events Section Reflections

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Against Interfaith Gatherings

Associations

Modernists & Public Gatherings

Processions / Eucharistic Processions

Misc. / Events

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Balls / Dances

Catholics Should Prefer to Associate with Catholics

Cinema / Motion Pictures

Comics / Illustrated Stories

Entertainment Need Not Lack Cultural Validity

Excessive Play

Frivolous Amusement / Precept of Charity

Legion of Decency

Motion Pictures & Radio: Duties

Motion Pictures & Television: Educating / Training Spectators

Motion Pictures / Cinema, Television, and Radio

Motion Pictures / Radio / Television

Parents, Youths, and Entertainment

Play / Pleasure / Relaxation

Public Amusement / Feast Days

Radio

Run From Places of Sin

Television

Travelers as Heralds of Christ

Misc. / Catholic Fun & Activities

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Catholic Life Section Reflections

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Abortion

Abortion / Euthanasia

Against a Purely Secular Education

Against Bodily Destruction

Against Co-Education

Against Cross Dressing

Against Divorce & 'Remarriage'

Against (False) Paradise on Earth

Against Military Training of Girls

Against Sex-Education for Youths (Outside the Home)

Against Women Wearing Men's Clothing

All Things Are From God

Almsgiving

Anger

Artificial Fertilization

Artificial Reproduction

Associating with Catholics

Attacks Against Life

Bad Thoughts

Baptism of Aborted Fetuses

Being at the Service of Truth

Birth Control / Contraception

Church Dogmas Are Unchangeable

The Church in America

The Church is Man's Guide to Heaven

Church Law (Canon Law)

Civil Law

Communism

Companions / Associations

Compliments / Flattery

Constancy

Correction / Rebuke

The Corruption of the World Today

Death & Those We Love

Death Becomes Evil Only By the Retribution Which Follows

Death is Not the End / Resurrection

Death of the Just

Death of the Wicked

Death / Pain

Decoration of the Home

Defense of Life

Democracy

Despair

Each Child Has a Right to an Education in Harmony With Church Teaching

Ecclesiastical Funerals / Burial

Fatima & Offensive Fashions

Fear

Fear of Death

Fear of Hell

Femininity & The Virgin Mary

Fostering Vocations / Vocations in the Family

Freedom / Liberty

Freemasonry / Secret Societies

Friends & Neighbors [Pg.]

A Happy Death is Our Principal Concern In Life

Hatred

Holiness / Virtue [Pg.]

How One Dies is How One Remains Forever

Humility

An Ideal Home

Idleness & Young People

The Image of God

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - See "Artificial Reproduction"

Legitimate / Illegitimate Children

Living Together Without the Sacrament of Matrimony

Living Well

Longing For Death

Looking to the Good of Others

Marriage, Family & Home [Pg.]

Marriage Not Equal to Virginity

Marriage Not Recommended for All

Materialism

Mediums

Meekness Towards Ourselves

Men

Mixed Marriage [Pg.]

Modesty / Dress

Modesty/Proper Dress [Pg.]

The Moment of Death

Mortification

Mothers / Motherhood

Narrow Path to Eternal Life

Natural Defects

Necessity of Frequent Reminders

Necessity of Providing Food & Water to the Sick

Necessity of / Reasons for Suffering

Need for 'Apostles'

Obedience / Disobedience

Obligation of Voting

Obligations When the Church Tolerates a Mixed Marriage

Opinion of Others

Order of Things Established by God

Our Actions Must Correspond to Our Faith

Our Deaths & The Blessed Virgin

Our Imperfections

Our Last End

Our Neighbor / Care & Treatment of Our Neighbor

Our Sacrifices

Padre Pio's Dress Requirements for Women

Pain

Papal Complaint Regarding American Schools

Papal / Saintly Advice & Instruction

Parental Discipline

Parental Responsibility for Catholic Education

Parents / Parenting

Parents' Right to Educate Their Children

Pleasure is Momentary

Prenatal Diagnosis / Testing

Preparing For Death

Pride / Vanity

Primacy of Husband / Obedience of Wife

Private Property

Proper Dress for Church / Women

Prophecy of St. Nilus

Religion Helps the State

Religious Liberty (Trad.)

Renouncing One's Self

Separation of Church & State Condemned

Sinful Desires Forbidden

Sins & Shortcomings of Others

Sterility is Not an Impediment to Marriage

Sterilization

Striving Against Nature

Suffering

Suffering & Death [Pg.]

Suicide (Life Issues Pg.)

Suicide (Sin & Vice Pg.)

Taking of (Innocent) Life is Forbidden

Taxes

Temperance

Temptation

Traditional Teaching of the Church on Mixed Marriage

Traditional Teaching on Cremation

Trials & Tribulations

Unborn in Holy Scripture

Uncertain Moment of Death

Unemployment

Vatican Dress Standards

Wealth / Poverty [Pg.]

What is Learned Early is Hard to Eradicate From the Mind

Women / Womanhood

Women's Work in the Home

Words of Advice (Suffering)

Words of Encouragement (Suffering)

Work

Work / Wages [Pg.]

Misc. (Catholic Life)

Misc. (Death & Dying)

Misc. (Education)

Misc. (Life Issues)

Misc. (Mixed Marriage)

Misc. (Modesty / Proper Dress)

Misc. (Suffering & Death)

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Catholic Links Section Reflections

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Against Artistic License

Approval Cannot Be Given to Communicate Anything at All

Duty of Not Overstepping the Proper Limits of Moderation

Employing Means of Communication for the Benefit of the Faith

Heavenly Patron of Modern Communications Instruments

Missionary Responsibility of Lay Persons

Obligation of Catholics to Support the Media

On Modern Technology

Propaganda that Misrepresents / Distorts Should be Rejected

Punishment for Improper Use of Means of Social Communications

The Right and Duty of Lay Catholics to Promote the Faith

Social Communication

Misc. / Catholic Web Links

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Catholic News

Causes of Society's Ills

Divine Providence

Encouragement

Fallen Members of the Church

The Hardships of Life

Instructions / Social Remedies

A Just Society

The Last Days

Let the World Hear of the Rights of God

Persecution

The Press

State of Things / Laments

Vanities of the World

Warnings

Misc. (Catholic News Section)

Current Issues

Against Reducing to Antiquity

The Blessed Virgin Will Succor Us in Our Trials

Blessing of Heaven May Not Be Expected if Homage is Unworthy

Christ is Victorious

Christ's Promise to the Church Should Be Understood as Referring to the Church as a Whole, and Not to Certain Portions of It

The Church Cannot Be Overthrown

The Church is Both Divine & Human

The Enemy Seeks to Destroy the Church and Corrupt the People

Failure to Oppose Error is to Approve of It

False Opinions Influence & Pervert Actions

First Duty of the Flock When Shepherd Becomes a Wolf

Laments

One Should Not Place One's Happiness in the Desire for Possessions

Our Age is Hostile to Justice & Truth

Persecution of the Church Ultimately Leads to Benefits

Return to Primal Constitution Constitutes Recovery

Unjust Laws Are a Species of Violence

The Victory Will Be With God

War Has Been Declared Against Everything Supernatural

Misc. (Current Issues)

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Catholic Seniors Section Reflections

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The Age of the Body Does Not Affect the Soul

The Aged Apostles Peter & Paul

The Aged Elizabeth

The Aged Pope St. Martin

The Aged St. Jerome

The Aged Zacharias

All Need Others' Help / All Are Useful to Others

Beneficial Contributions of the Elderly

Care & Treatment of the Aged

Elderly Persons in the Bible

The Elderly Pope John Paul II

The Elderly Pope Leo XIII

The Elderly Simeon & Anna

Euthanasia Condemned

It Belongs to Elders to Reprove & Scold

It's Never Too Late

Let Your Old Age be Childlike

Neglect of the Elderly is Intolerable

Old Age Conversions

Old Age is a Gift / Benefits of Old Age

Old Age Will Not Detach Us From God

Quality of Civilization Determined by the Protection of its Weakest Members

Respect / Honor for the Aged

The Rosary / Old Age

There is No Period of Life Where We Cannot Continue to Grow

To Old Workingmen

To the Elderly that Feel Insecure

Widows / Widowhood

Young Persons Urged to Remain Close to the Elderly

Young Priests Recommended to Live With Elders

Misc. / Catholic Seniors

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Church Talk Section Reflections

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Adoration Facing the East

Against Applause / Noise in Church

Against Reducing to Antiquity

All Laity Forbidden to Preach in Church

Altar Cloth Material

Altars

Bands Forbidden in Church

Beauty & Decorum in the House of God

Building / Refurbishing of Churches

Churches Should Be Open

Condemnation / Single Altar

Consecrated / Dedicated / Blessed Altars & Sacred Places

The Crucifix

Denial of Eucharist to Public Sinners

Desecration of Sacred Places

Desirable that Men & Women be Separated in Church

Disposition of Church Items

Divine Praises

Each Church to Have its Own Priest

Entry to Church To Be Open and Free

Exposition of the Holy Eucharist

Forbidden / Allowed Instruments

Goodness / Beauty

Gregorian Chant

Holiness Over Beauty

Instruments Should Not Oppress Singing

Kneeling / Prostrating / Bowing / Genuflecting

Lay People Have No Power to Dispose of Ecclesiastical Property

Liturgical Vestments / Those Who Want Black Excluded

Loss of Dedication / Consecration / Blessing

Music is at the Service of the Liturgy & Not Vice Versa

Notorious Public Criminals Not to Serve at Altar / Assist at Services

Oratories

Places Under Church Not to Be Put to Secular Use / No Opening to House of Laity

Polyphony

Praise of Gothic Style

Private Chapels

Profanation of a Sacred Object

Proper / Improper Church Attire

Reasons for Church Buildings

Rejected Artwork

Relics

Relics & Flowers Allowed on Altar

Sacred Images / Veneration of Images

Sacred Music

Sacred Music is Not For the Purpose of Pleasure or Showing Off

Sacred Places Exempt From Civil Jurisdiction

Sacred Things Not to be Put to Repugnant / Inappropriate Uses

Sacred Vessels Not To Be Touched by Laity

Sacrilege

Shrines

Silence in Church

Suitable / Unsuitable Music

The Tabernacle

Those Admitted to the Choir

Unlawful Seizure

Use of Holy Water Remits Venial Sins

Vatican Art

Violated Churches

Who Should / Should Not Participate in the Making of Sacred Art

Women Not Admitted to the Choir

Women's Head Covering

Misc. / Church Talk

Misc. / Sacred Music

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Coming Home Section Reflections

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Against 'Cafeteria Catholicism'

Against Human 'Progress' in Religion

Against Religious Indifferentism

Against Religious Liberty

All Non-Catholic 'churches' Must Be Sunk in Pernicious Errors

All Plausible if Contrary Excluded

All Truths Require Assent

The Anathema is an Act of Love

Anglican Ordinations Declared Invalid

Bad Examples Undermine Our Teachings

Better to Be a Bad Catholic Than a Good Protestant?

Biblical Societies Rejected

Calls to Repentance

Calls to Wandering / Lost Sheep

Cannot Have God For Father Without Church For Mother

Cannot Live as One Chooses

Cannot Live Without the Root

The Catholic Church / Religion [Pg.]

Catholics Not Living Their Faith Will Be Swept Away

The Chair of Peter

Character of the Faithful Distinguished from the Character of the Devil

Christians Who Do Not Persevere Are Subject To Eternal Punishment

The Church

The Church Can Forgive All Sin

The Church is Not Invisible

Continued Searching After Obstinate Sheep

Conversion

Conversion / Repentance

Convert Others By Our Good Example / Practice What We Preach

Defense of the Faithful Against Errors & Temptations is Greater Than Bodily Protection

Do Not Despair of Salvation of Those Still Living

Do Not Despair of the Living

Doing Our Own Will Rather Than God's Will

Duty to Profess / Defend the Faith

Duty to Reject Strange Doctrine

Error / Truth

Fallen Away Catholics

Fallen Away Catholics / Those Who Leave the Church [Pg.]

False Opinions Influence / Pervert Actions

Fear of the Lord / Habitual Sins

Flattery Confirms Sinners

Forgiveness / Repentance

Friends vs. Flatterers

Good & Bad Persons in the Catholic Church

Good Men Cannot Leave the Church

Gospel Doesn't Support False Tolerance

Greater Knowledge / Greater Blame

Heaven Cannot Be Entered Without the Keys

Heresy/Heretics & Schism/Schismatics

How To Conduct Ourselves

Liberty of Conscience

Loss of the Fear of God

Man is Not Free To Embrace Any Religion

Marriage Between Catholics & Non-Catholics

Misc. (Catholic Church / Religion)

Misc. (Coming Home Section / Misc.)

Misc. (Our Behavior / Tips)

Necessity of Being Catholic For Salvation

No Good Hope of Salvation For Those Outside the True Church

No Just Cause for Catholics Changing or Doubting the Faith

No One Can Be Certain That He Will Be Saved

No Peace When We Wander From God

No Repentance is Too Late

Non-Association with Heretics / Schismatics

None Should Presume Their Own Salvation or Despair of Neighbor's Salvation

Nothing More Glorious Than Belonging to the Church

Novel Teachings Are Forbidden

One Cannot Find the Way to Salvation in Just Any Religion

One Should Not Be Open Minded to Error

One Who Calls Himself Catholic But is Actually No Longer Catholic

Our Behavior / Tips [Pg.]

Our Solicitude & Our Duty to Correct / Rebuke

Pan-Christianity Condemned

Personal Interpretation of Scripture / Rejection of Truth

Protestant Bibles Rejected

Protestantism Established With Much Persecution / Bloodshed

Protestantism is Not Another Equally Pleasing Form of the Same Christian Religion

The Purpose of Life

Recognizing the True Religion

Religion and Peace / Happiness

Scandals in the Church / Bad Catholics

Should Devote Greater Solicitude For Soul Than For Body

Sin / Repentance / Forgiveness [Pg.]

Sinners Should Call on Mary

Sins / Sinners

Solicitude For Those Outside the Church

Some Considering Their Deserved Punishment Would Prefer That There Be Nothing After Death

Some Don't Want To Convert Because They Want to Continue in Their Sinful Ways

The Spirit of Christ Refuses to Dwell Through Sanctifying Grace in Those Severed From the Church

Those Gathered Outside the Church of Christ

Those Not Following Christ / Those Not of Christ

Those Not in the State of Grace May Not Receive Holy Communion

Those Not United to the Body of the Church Are Not Her Members or in Communion With Christ

Those Outside the Church [Pg.]

Those Outside the Church Must Desire to Belong to Her

Those Who Cling to the Old Observances of the Law

Those Who Do Not Wish To See / Hear

Those Who Leave the Church

Those Who Make Scripture Mean What They Want it to Mean

Those Who Mention Only Jesus' Clemency

Those Who Reject the Church Reject Christ

Those Who Resist Lawful Authority Resist God's Ordering

Those Who Say They Are Not Confided to Peter Confess That They Are Not Christ's Sheep

Tips for the Conversion of Sinners

The True Church Can Be Recognized From Her Origin

True Holiness Belongs to the Catholic Church Alone

True vs. False Church

Truth & the Nature of Man

Truth / Error / Nature of Man [Pg.]

Truth is Unchanging

Unbelievers

Unlawful to Force Others to Embrace the Catholic Faith

We Must Attend To Our Own Souls

We Must Have Charity For All People

We Must Not Refrain From Correcting Our Neighbor

We Must Persevere

What Delayed St. Augustine's Conversion

What Jesus Says vs. What Protestantism Says

Who Are Truly Numbered Among the Members of the Church

Who Really is a Christian / Truly Following & Believing in Christ

Why Trust Martin Luther?

The Worth of One Saved Soul

Zeal for Souls

Zeal Without Knowledge May Be Dangerous

Misc. / Coming Home

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God Will Provide / Attain For Yourself an Inexhaustible Treasure in Heaven

Importance of Advertising / Problems with Advertising

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Many Sin for the Sake of Profit

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Temporal Goods

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The Family Rosary

In Defense of the Rosary / Those Who Consider the Devotion an "Annoying Formula"

Knowing if a Man is For God / Rosary

The Mysteries of the Rosary

October / Rosary Month

Praise for the Rosary

Recitation of the Rosary is Recommended

The Rosary & Sin

The Rosary & The Souls in Purgatory

The Rosary as a Spiritual Thermometer

The Rosary in History

The Rosary is a Medicine

The Rosary is Pleasing to Mary

There is No Valid Excuse for Not Praying the Daily Rosary

Those Who Say Daily Rosary Are Not Led Astray

Misc. / Rosary

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All Are Called to Holiness

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Daily Progress in Virtue

Detachment

Go Forward or You'll Go Backward

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Holiness & Prayer

Holiness & Salvation

Holiness Can Be Lost

Holiness in Everyday Life

Holiness in Stages

Holiness is not Earned

Holiness Tips

Holiness Tips from the Saints

Humility

Knowledge vs. Virtue

Making Choices / Using Christ as a Guide

Mortification

Necessary Ingredients of Holiness

Our Efforts are Necessary for Holiness / Salvation

Our Wills / Self-Surrender

Perfection

Perseverance

Proof of Holiness

Remaining Quiet / Discreet

Roadblocks in the Spiritual Life

Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Exercises

Spiritual Reading

Tribulations / Temptations

Warning Concerning Spiritualities Which Alienate People From the Church

Misc. / Holiness

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