| Columnists/Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk |
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| Updated: October 7th, 2011 |
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
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Friday, 04 May 2012
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One widely-encountered idea today is that there is no black and white when it comes to morality, only a kind of “gray area.” This is often taken to mean that we really can’t know with certainty what is right and wrong, allowing us to “push into the gray” as we make certain moral decisions ...
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
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Friday, 06 April 2012
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On Jan 20, 2012, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a mandate placing first amendment rights and religious freedom in the crosshairs.
The mandate, as a provision of ObamaCare, requires “preventive health service...
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
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Friday, 02 March 2012
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A few years ago, I spoke with a young man preparing to get married. His aunt told him that she thought he and his fiancée were too financially strapped to have a child, and that it wouldn't be fair to bring up a baby in poverty. Keenly aware of his ...
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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During a 2011 roundtable discussion on Fox News, guest commentator Jay Thomas argued that young people should not be too concerned when it comes to pre-marital sex, because nobody would choose to “buy a car without driving it first. You don’t get...
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK
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Friday, 06 January 2012
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Once I met a woman who had worked for years in fashion and modeling. Unsurprisingly, she was strikingly attractive. She was accompanied by her teenage daughter who, by contrast, was rather unremarkable to look at, maybe even a plain-Jane. After spend...
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 02 December 2011 Last month, an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta recommended that 9- to 12-year-old boys be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a vir... |
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 04 November 2011 In a recent column, David O’Brien, the associate director of religious education for lay ministry in the Archdiocese of Mobile, Ala., recounts the story of Agnes and Jake, devout Catholics who conce... |
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 07 October 2011 A recent news report chronicled a Chinese woman named Huang Yijun. Sixty years ago, her unborn child died, but the pregnancy was never expelled from her body. Instead, her baby’s body slowly began t... |
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 02 September 2011 A Catholic physician once related to me a powerful story about one of his patients, who had just received a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic cancer and had a relatively short time left to live.
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 05 August 2011 People often surmise that same-sex attraction is inborn, and that homosexuals are “naturally gay” or “born that way.”
They suppose that if God made them that way then it must not be a sin to ... |
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