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His mother said, "Do whatever He tells you." — John 2:5

Father Georges Bellanger (1861-1902), religious of Saint Vincent de Paul, Marian apostle and military chaplain. To make people love Jesus in the Eucharist by first making them love the Blessed Virgin Mary—this was the entire apostolic method of Father Georges Bellanger. This simple insight transformed the ministry of this French priest.

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I am the way the truth and the life. — John 14:6

God's freedom has decided to enter the imprisoned freedom of man and creation.

In the earthly Paradise, one fact was clear to our first parents: the creation whose fruits they enjoyed, and their very existence, were not to be taken for granted: they were there, but they could have been gone.

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The Catholic Church consistently rejects state socialism, communism, due to their materialistic philosophies, violation of private property rights, and suppression of individual liberty. The Church also rejects unregulated capitalism and consumerism. Broadly speaking, the Church defines consumerism as the relentless, out-of-order pursuit of material wealth and the belief that happiness, meaning, and identity are found in acquiring possessions. It is viewed as an ideological trap where humans are reduced to mere buyers and life is about things to be consumed.

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"Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls."

Pornography is a spiritual disaster, and the euphemisms of Sunday sermons aren’t getting at the problem. It’s not a secret that we have a pornography problem. By “we,” I mean American males, but also American Christian males.

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