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Jesus Scars

Joe — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:15:04 +0000

Within the last few weeks I have started to help a friend of mine church that he attends. They are having some issues with money and are looking for ways to use social media and their website to help increase membership and donations. The church he attends is an “inclusive spiritual community”. …

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Gay Catholic Social Networking website

Joe — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:54:37 +0000

I just wanted to announce that I have been working on Only A Part, the first Gay Catholic Social Networking website. Now, the website still has a lot of work needed to be done to it, but it is currently usable. The idea behind creating a social network for Gay Catholic is …

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Cardinal Schoenborn and Archbishop Dadeus Grings

Joe — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:32:28 +0000

In the last month or so, both Cardinal Schoenborn of Austria and Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Brazil have spoken on the topic of homosexuality. I found it really interesting how the comments made by each of these individuals varied from the current teachings of the Catholic Church. It is also interesting to …

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The Church is a whore

Joe — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:40:45 +0000

“The Church is a whore, but she is my mother.” ~ St. Augustine For Christmas, my parents give me a year’s subscription to Netflix. The main reason they give me this is because I do not have cable and this allows me the ability to watch something on my computer by streaming …

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Internal Conflict #1

Joe — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:05:14 +0000

As I sit here watching Goal 2 and talking to my friend Mikey online, I am struggling to get the words out that I would like to express in this blog posting. Expressing myself has never been an easy task for me. Nevertheless, here I sit, trying my hardest to put my …

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Need your prayers please

Joe — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:35:53 +0000

I am about to start the process of making some very big and important changes in my life. I need your prayers in asking God to grant what He feels is right for my life. Please pray that I have the courage and strength to go ahead with the plans I have …

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Forgiveness and Why We Must Forgive

Joe — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:03:29 +0000

“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.” Pope John Paul II I have writing about this topic in the past on the posting entitled “Why Must the Good Die Young?”. But I do feel it …

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The Centurion Story – Luke 7:1-10

Joe — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:46:36 +0000

In a recent posted I wrote entitled “Did Jesus Encounter A Gay Couple”, I discussed in the book ‘What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality’ by Daniel Heminiak where Mr. Heminiak wrote about the centurion and his slave boy. According to Mr. Heminiak, he suggested that the relationship between the centurion and …

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Ending the Year Right

Joe — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:27:10 +0000

It has been a few weeks since I lasted posted a blog entry, but I do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 is even better for you than 2009. This posting is going to be just to give some updates on things going on in my life. I have …

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Did Jesus Encounter a Gay Couple?

Joe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:00:33 +0000

A few years ago I purchased a book called What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. The book is written in a gay friendly manner and explains some alternative thinking to what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of homosexuality. Mr. Daniel A. Helminiak is a …

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