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by Michael Parise | Oct 13, 2015
When we feel put down we feel “terminally unique”, as if we are the only person on earth who has been so shamed, so humiliated. I fully admit that some people seem capable of shrugging off this kind of experience (or perhaps they just have learned to bury...
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by Michael Parise | Jan 25, 2013
For many years hearing confessions I would listen to the anguish, especially of senior Catholics, concerning their “impure thoughts.” It was impressed upon them by parents and teachers that the desires of the flesh, especially sexual thoughts, were in conflict with...
