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Catholic by Choice
Choosing to be Catholic: Catholics Returning to the Church
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Deacon Keith Fournier
I named this blog “Catholic by Choice” with a specific purpose, to communicate to those who read my writing that I choose to be a Catholic Christian and love the Catholic Church. I am a “revert” to the Catholic Church. Though I was baptized into the Church as an infant and received the other Sacraments…
Truth, Twitter and Tangled Webs: Learning from ‘Weiner-gate’
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
I just returned from what would have been a wonderful, hard, exhilarating and uplifting workout at the gym- but for “Weiner-Gate”. Most people reading this piece know what I am referring to. The sad series of events which continues to propel Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York onto every television screen in America – and…
Forget Heaven: Maybe Stephen Hawking Isn’t Real
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
On Monday May 15, 2011, scientist/cosmologist/physicist Stephen Hawking gave an interview to Ian Sample, the science correspondent for the Guardian Newspaper of the United Kingdom. It was entitled Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story’. There was nothing new contained in Hawkings’ answers to the questions posed by Sample. That is why I…
Why Does the Catholic Church Oppose Stem Cell Research? Answer: It Doesn’t!
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
How many times have you heard the charge that the Catholic Church opposes “Stem Cell Research”? You know – the insinuation is that this antiquated remnant of the middle ages, run by old men, is somehow impeding human and scientific progress. Well, not only is the claim absolutely untrue from a factual perspective, it is…
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