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I’ll be offline for Lent. Giving up social media. I’ll be fasting and doing other penances - Morning prayers and lots of reading and silence. Cold showers and heavy weights. Pray for me as I work to build virtue and bring my body into subjection. See y’all on the other side.

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God bless all the new converts to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church! It’s exploding!!!

In 2009 I was already leaning towards Catholicism and I was completely immersed in giants like Peter Kreeft, Scott Hahn, Chesterton, and St. John Henry Newman. But I had only ever been inside a Catholic Church a few times. But an old friend was getting confirmed at St. Casimir’s Church in Baltimore and asked me to attend the Easter Vigil in support. The Mass lasted nearly 3 hours and I never wanted it to end. I wanted to stay right there forever. The entire experience was a profound encounter with Jesus Christ and what I can only hope was a foretaste of heaven. I came into the Catholic Church the following February, I just wasn’t able to wait until the next Easter Vigil.

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As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

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👀 Something’s happening

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Arizona can’t hit the broad side of a barn

Five years ago I was telling people: "There are going to be mass conversions to Catholicism in the next several decades," and people said I was out of my mind. Now we have many dioceses that have more than doubled the number of converts they received last year. Some are up as high as 150% year-over-year. The pattern is consistent and it is global: people are coming back to the Catholic Church in stunningly high numbers. Why? Because every other structure for making sense of the world has FAILED in the West. Mainline Protestantism went liberal and entered a death spiral. Evangelical Protestantism is fractionalized into thousands of incoherent and conflicting denominations. Modern secular liberalism has offered an utterly barren materialist philosophy of life and its purpose, has worked to de-sacralize life and promote nihilism -- and has ultimately been the handmaiden of neoliberal capitalism and the confusing miasma of a "post-truth" world. Eastern Orthodoxy remains disunified, doctrinally confused, and unable to convene an ecumenical council for the last 1200 years. New Age and Eastern faiths remain obscure and vague. What remains? The Catholic Church remains. It's the only institution still in existence that has retained a coherent moral theology, a sound and well-reasoned doctrine, and a definite claim to Apostolic authority. It's teachings are consistent and clearly congruent with a functional Church that really does "make disciples of all nations." Its sacramental theology honors the actual teachings of Christ. But most of all: the Catholic Church is not "making it up as it goes along." Expect more of this. We are just getting started with a revival that is going to completely alter the course of the twenty-first century.

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