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The latest from CHNetwork
This week’s episode of The Journey Home was a wonderful conversation with Mother Petra, who grew up Wesleyan and became a Byzantine nun.
In this week’s On The Journey short, Kenny Burchard shares how he wondered about the authority by which he was ordained as a Pentecostal minister.
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And in this week’s featured written story, Fr. Larry Gearhart shared his journey from cradle Catholic to agnostic to the priesthood.
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CONVERTS AND CONVERSION
Catholic Stand shared the story of Brother Joseph Dutton, who fought in the Civil War, battled alcoholism, and then went on to serve lepers in Hawaii with St. Damian of Molokai.
Joe Bukuras looked at some of the ways that Catholic convert St. John Henry Newman articulated Church teachings on Mary.
Fr. Ken Geraci shared a bit about his journey from being an agnostic chasing professional success to conversion and a call to the priesthood.
APOLOGETICS PICKS OF THE WEEK
The Latin Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem has called for a day of prayer and fasting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for peace and reconciliation in the Holy Land.
And Aleteia explored why the priest adds a little water to the wine at Mass prior to the consecration of the Eucharist.
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“Money is nothing more than shredded paper. What counts in this life is the nobility of the soul, that is, the way we love God and neighbor.”
Bl. Carlo Acutis
Feast Day: October 11th
