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My journey from Platform 9¾: How I first encountered Harry Potter
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My journey from Platform 9¾: How I first encountered Harry Potter

Rita BuettnerJune 26, 20173 min read
As a young newspaper reporter in Southcentral Pennsylvania back in July 1999, I was assigned to go to a bookstore on a Friday night for a book release party. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was coming out, and dozens of children were expected to attend—in costume and full of excitement.I had heard of […]
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Love over hate
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Love over hate

Father Joseph BreighnerJune 26, 20174 min read
Evangelization doesn’t simply mean getting someone to join our faith or our church. Evangelization is helping people to have such a relationship with Jesus that love becomes the heart of our lives.
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Summer reading, a drawing of the Easter Bunny, Father’s Day, and water balloons (7 Quick Takes)
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Summer reading, a drawing of the Easter Bunny, Father’s Day, and water balloons (7 Quick Takes)

Rita BuettnerJune 23, 20174 min read
~1~ Summer is really here! We went to sign up for summer reading at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The boys’ aunt (my sister) works there, so we always register there. It’s a terrific program—and I would say that even if we didn’t have an aunt working there. We always stop to see the fish […]
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Amen: Graduates introduced to greatness at Seton Keough
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Amen: Graduates introduced to greatness at Seton Keough

Erik ZygmontJune 22, 20173 min read
While Seton Keough has closed, Benton, Graves and Dambita – as well as their classmates and underclassmen – will keep the school’s spirit alive.
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Why I love my Catholic faith
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Why I love my Catholic faith

Rita BuettnerJune 21, 20173 min read
I love that as Catholics we can go to any Mass anywhere in the world and—even if it’s in another language, it’s the same. I love the beauty of our faith, the statues and the symbols, the bells and the candles, the holy water and the music.
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The Hunger
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The Hunger

Robyn BarberryJune 21, 20172 min read
I realized that I needed the comfort of my Lord and Savior more than I needed pancakes to provide sustenance for my journey home.
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Question Corner: No heaven?/A vengeful God?
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Question Corner: No heaven?/A vengeful God?

Father Kenneth DoyleJune 20, 20175 min read
Is heaven a physical place? Is God vengeful? These are some of the questions Father Kenneth Doyle takes on in this edition of “Question Corner.”
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Movies, baseball, cousins, Dutch Wonderland, and our noodle jar (7 Quick Takes)
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Movies, baseball, cousins, Dutch Wonderland, and our noodle jar (7 Quick Takes)

Rita BuettnerJune 16, 20173 min read
You know when you get a haircut and no one notices for weeks? Or they finally notice and it has been so long that it’s already time for you to get another?
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You don’t have to have a glove
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You don’t have to have a glove

Rita BuettnerJune 15, 20173 min read
Our sons were still full of energy, bouncing around the house, begging to go outside and play in the heat. I saw only one option.
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Way beyond the New Atheist nonsense
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Way beyond the New Atheist nonsense

George WeigelJune 15, 20174 min read
The Bible teaches that God impressed his intelligibility onto the world through creation by the Word.
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