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Catholic by Choice
A Catholic Activist Looks at the US Presidential Campaign of 2012 and the ‘Catholic Vote’
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Deacon Keith Fournier
After Labor Day, the US Presidential campaign of 2012 will move into high gear. Clearly, this is one of the most important elections of my lifetime. The economy is in a free fall and the sense of fear in the United States is palpable. A majority of people have lost confidence in our elected leaders.…
Religious Cleansing: Judge Orders Removal of the Ten Commandments Outside of Florida Courthouse
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
On July 15, 2011 the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida ordered that a large Ten Commandments monument – paid for privately by a local businessman and displayed since 2006 – be removed within thirty days from the front steps of the Courthouse. Mat Staver, the founder and chairman of The…
Choosing to be Catholic: Catholics Returning to the Church
By
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…
A Catholic Christian Way of Being ‘Green’
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
Last week Pope Benedict XVI received the credential letters of six new ambassadors to the Holy See. He sounded a theme which is common in his locutions and writings; he spoke of a “Human Ecology”. He recalled the “innumerable tragedies that have affected nature, technology, and the peoples” this year. He suggested that “the States…
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