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Art of living Well

A Catholic Response to Web 3.0

No man can resist the unfolding of time. The manifestation of God’s will in time, his divine providence, cannot be destroyed, altered, thwarted, or prevented from reaching the goal for which all of creation was intended. As scripture says, “Who...

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Your First Time Fasting? Here is some advice

Many people are having the desire to fast for health reasons and in order to go deeper in the faith. While various forms of fasting are being promoted by health reasons, this article is going to focus on a purely...

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Asceticism 2.0

When I came back to the faith, I modeled myself more off of the Desert Fathers than modern exercise culture. I wanted to fast and embrace asceticism like they did, but early on I couldn’t understand how to integrate traditional...

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Reception from the Chalice and the Rise of Neo-Utraquism

Since Vatican II, one of the novel developments has been the reception of the body and blood of our Lord under both species. In Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Council Fathers allowed for reception of communion under both species, but it is...

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Feminism is a Parasite

I would argue that feminism has not been the major cause of improvement in the lives of women, but has been a hindrance. Flourishing is not about power and self determination, but rather virtue and self control and feminism undermines...

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The Psychology of Food

Our emotions and interior life are intimately connected with our body. It should be no surprise then that the major world religions developed an understanding that different foods have psychological and spiritual effects based on their chemistry and the human...

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Political and Economic Ecology

My approach to politics and economics is more like medicine than mathematics. In mathematics, problems are solved by clear formulas that have a kind of consistency due to them being abstracted from particulars. One is a kind of metaphysical concept...

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Don’t be a Slave to Your Stomach

Many people fail to make progress because they are unable to master their drives and instincts, specifically our need for food. Our nutrition is tied to with our emotional life and is ultimately the battle ground in which we strengthen...

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We Walk by Faith – Conversations with Atheism

Language is the primary means by which humans experience, interpret, and master reality. To say that language is essential to the human experience should be obvious enough for without language thought is not possible. What has troubled the postmodern mind...