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Our hearts are restless until they rest in You.

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Christian Worldview Book Recommendations:

The Faith:

1. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (or check out the one in the Vatican website)

2. This is the Faith: A Complete Explanation of the Catholic Faith by Canon Francis Ripley

History:

1. How the Catholic Church Built the Western Civilization by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.

Christian Spiritual Life:

1. Padre Pio

2. The Way by St. Josemaria Escriva

Cultural Commentary:

1. Nihilism The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age by Fr. Seraphim Rose (Eastern Orthodox)

2. Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

3. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis (Anglican)

Politics:

1. Christian Social Order by Fr. Brian Mullady OP

2. Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII

3. Immortale Dei by Pope Leo XIII

4. Summi Pontificatus by Pope Pius XII

5. Divini Redemptoris by Pope Pius XI

6. Mit Brennender Sorge by Pope Pius XI

7. Gaudium et Spes a constitution promulgated during Vatican II

Social Issues:

1. On Transgenderism: Male, Female, or Other: A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender by Jason Evert

Christian Living:

1. Dating: How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul by Crystalina and Jason Evert

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(Ignore the part that I'm citing an AF Post for this)

I hope that Pope Leo XIV's first order of business is to clarify the quotes that Pope Francis said that has been distorted by the secular media either to due to lack of understanding the Catholic Faith or to deliberately advance their own sinful agenda.

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I don't know how interesting you would find this, but, as a Protestant, we hope for a conservative Pope. Between conservative Protestants and conservative Catholics, we're the only ones that hold up the values of traditional Christianity and family. We feel like if it weren't for all of us traditional Christians (on both sides of the Reformation), this world would degrade into absolute deviancy and blasphemy.

So, believe it or not, the Protestants are also waiting to see how conservative and traditional Pope Leo is going to be.

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“Some past Popes were conservative, some were liberal, some were moderate - all are Catholic. And each and every valid Pope is the Vicar of Christ. If you rejoice in conservative Popes, and shake your head at liberal Popes, you are a very faithful conservative, but you are not a faithful Catholic. Every faithful Catholic, without exception, must put Catholicism above conservatism, liberalism, feminism, communism, democracy, capitalism, and all other philosophical, political, or economic systems.”

-Ron Conte, In Defense of Pope Francis

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Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher

Died May 3, 1682

Feast Day: May 3

Saint Ahmet or Ahmed, a Muslim, lived in Constantinople. He worked as an Ottoman official in the office of the Chief Secretary and served as a copyist and calligrapher in the Great Archives. He converted to Christianity because of the influence of his Russian concubine’s faith and after experiencing the Christian liturgy. When defending the Christian faith and renouncing Islam, he was martyred.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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Kazuma Kaneko "Creature Features", Part Two [Part One]

A few recognizable Megaten demons in this set, like Mothman, Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Purple Mirror, Poltergeist, and Legion!

I'll post the third and final set tomorrow!

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it's so fun seeing all this poetry on tumblr about "gods" when everyone's concept of a "god" is just a superhero who'll die from a lack of attention, and mine is a maximally great being.

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"…what's a God to a nonbeliever?" a real and supremely powerful being who continues to be such despite being ignored? the same as math is to the illiterate? the same as the sun is to the blind? the same as a hurricane is to the person who ignored the warnings and stayed on the shore?

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

-C.S. Lewis

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The Easter Story

(Via Dribbble)

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“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Mathew 6:26