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Protestant Christianity dominates the vast majority of the land mass across the United States.
Catholicism is the largest in New England, in South Florida, across the Southern border, and up through California.
Lots of LDS in Utah and Idaho.
You don't need to visit every shrine in Europe or master the Catechism. You don't need elaborate prayer routines, Catholic social media validation, or the perfect saint medal collection.
You need the quiet consistency of showing up—at Mass, in Scripture, through service, in silent moments of surrender.
Sanctity isn't found in spiritual achievements. It's discovered in the daily yes.
A well-respected MMA coach who always posts training tips and is based out of Australia says he arrived in the U.S. for an already-scheduled seminar, but was detained at the border, thrown in a federal prison and ultimately deported.
The details of his story are harrowing:
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Graham Greene’s novel The Power and the Glory is the book for the Catholic Church in our times. It holds a mirror up to all the corruption and evil in the Church, but in a way that is deeply, seriously merciful.
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T minus 25 days until I am officially Catholic.
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Only took this branch of the Dickinson family 492 years to come back home 🤪
“Lesley Arnold was so beautiful she made me slightly sick to my stomach. She had large purple, really purple, eyes, small regular features, glistening white teeth, and hair, the color of unbleached muslin, pulled severely back and held with a large tortoise-shell barrette. Her skin was the color of good bourbon. She had on a goldy brown,…
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"But such is God's mercy towards the vessels of mercy which He has prepared for glory, that even the first age of man, that is, infancy, which submits without any resistance to the flesh, and the second age, which is called boyhood, and which has not yet understanding enough to undertake this warfare, and therefore yields to almost every…
President Donald Trump is destroying the global economy, according to the media, Democrats, Europeans, and libertarians. The stock market is crashing. His administration is randomly and arbitrarily imposing tariffs, they say. And his tariffs are on the verge of causing a self-destructive global trade war.
But policy should not be based on…
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Why do Democrats devote so much energy to P.R. campaigns against people from their own ranks?
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Motherhood is hard. Sometimes excruciatingly so. But that’s not a bad thing.
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Anyone else worried about what Substack is turning into? My understanding was that it used to be a place for nerds like you and me to try our hand at writing. But it seems that within five minutes from now it’s going to be essentially another crowd funding hub for videos and audio which I fear will drown out the written word.
Hi, I’m Joel, and I write and teach about Christian apologetics and philosophy. Anyone into that? Give me a follow!
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Some great comments section discussions going down about political homilies/praying for specific politicians!
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I attempted to write my first novel at eight years old as a way to deal with grief. Check out my first Substack post for the whole story!
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Best post by Heather Cox Richardson I have ever read. Consider this a wake-up call. Fight or get fucked folks. Personal impoverishment is here. Not tomorrow, next week or next year. NOW.
