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Papal Infallibility

...“mysteries hidden in God, which unless divinely revealed, cannot be known.”[1] While this may seem to put reason and faith in conflict, the Council contended that “there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason since the same God who reveals mysteries has bestowed the light of reason.”[2]

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World War One Army Chaplains

...riests would not be allowed to join until the Mexican-American War of 1846.[1] When the United States entered the war in 1917 there were only a handful of Catholic priests in the armed forces; however, by the end of the war that number grew to over 1,000.[2] Of those, 38

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...s saying the rosary. But then it started to stir up again and George Fencl comes up behind me and says, “Monsignor, you think you could say another rosary?” (laughter) http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-2.wav Interviewer: Thank you for keeping the lid on that simmering violence in the neighborhood. Devlin: Yeah, we had, we

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