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Sunday Gospel Theology Companion

Learning Theology Like Martha And Mary—Is Mary's Way Best?
Sometimes you just have to sit there
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Donald Paul Maddox
The Good Samaritan and Catholic Social Teaching
Even a dying man on the side of the road is created in the image of God
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Donald Paul Maddox
A Synodal Church, But The Keys Were Only Given To Peter
The Church Is Not A Democracy
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Donald Paul Maddox
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Mass In The 2nd Century And The Early Church
The Liturgy and Corpus Christi Sunday
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Donald Paul Maddox
Explaining the 2 Processions and 4 Relations in the Trinity
It's complicated
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Donald Paul Maddox
What is the "Filioque"?
Breaking down the development and the controversy for reunification
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Donald Paul Maddox
Wonder and Awe: The Ascension of the Lord
The sermons of St. Augustine and St. John Henry Newman on the Ascension
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Donald Paul Maddox
An Introduction to Pneumatology in Scripture and the Early Church
Jesus Doesn't Leave His Father And He Doesn't Leave Us
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Donald Paul Maddox
If You Want to Love, Sacrifice (Yourself)
St. Ignatius of Antioch and G.K. Chesterton
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Donald Paul Maddox
A tiny Gospel, a new Pontiff, and a killer papal name!
The Leonine tradition is strong, like really strong.
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Donald Paul Maddox
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What Jesus and Peter Can Teach the Next Pope
With help from St. Augustine and Joseph Ratzinger on Peter's Confession
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Donald Paul Maddox
"He Descended into Hell": The Theology of Holy Saturday
What St. Augustine, St. Thomas, the Council of Trent, and Hans Urs von Balthasar believe
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Donald Paul Maddox
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