One of the major themes I think about in my life is choices. We all make choices in our lives and we have to live with the consequences of these choices. Some of us make good choices, some of us make bad choices. some a combination of both. When I came back to God, okay I …
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Sunday Reflection: Confessing Our Sins
For the last two weeks I have been thinking about going to confession. This is something I haven’t done for about forty years. Why now? Why not?As I have written before I truly believe that God talks to me, no I am not hearing voices, but He talks to me in different ways. He talks …
It All Has to Start at Home
I am always heartened when I read something about youth involved in our faith. The latest was a blog post I found this morning. As I have written here before, I feel in one way I have failed my children by not practicing my faith when I was younger, now they don’t either. This means …
Excuse 2: Tell It To a Priest
“Forgive me father for I have sinned and it has been a long, long time since my last confession”. Remember these words? If you are Catholic you certainly must, they were drilled into us in order to prepare us for our First Communion. How many of us still go? This Wayward Catholic hasn’t been in …
National Honesty Day, What to do, What to do
This morning as I was performing my morning ritual of seeing what has been posted on the Wayward Catholic Facebook page I had a post from "The Drew Mariani show" stating today is "National Honesty Day". He then asked the question "Is it ever okay to be dishonest?"Needless to say I have been thinking about …
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A Catholic’s Dilema – Contraception and Teen Moms
Yesterday I had the pleasure of having a conversation with a woman who is counselor for pregnant teens. We were talking about some of the problems she faces everyday and one of the biggest problems she sees is the lack of role models for these teens and how they really know nothing different than the …
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Catholic Church Takes A Stand
It is good to see the Catholic Church taking a stand on the HHS contraception mandate. From the beginning this has been a case of the government interfering with religion, trying to force the church to go against their moral teachings. According to a recent article in "The Boston Pilot" catholics are urged to stand …
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