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By Chris Stefanick, EWTN News - The first rule for living joy is so powerful I almost wrote my entire book Living Joy about it. It’s gratitude. I’m going to talk about the five things that gratitude powerfully unleashes in your life, and the one main reason we all tend to stink at it... I know God’s will for your life. Check this out, from 1 Thessalonians 5: “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - We all have personal comfort zones. Priests generally live in a comfort-zone bubble, surrounded by friendly parishioners. Most parishioners, in contrast, enter daily into the lion’s den of a hostile secular workplace. So the very least a priest can do is support the faithful with orthodox teachings. Yet many priests and bishops hunger for cultural acceptance and allow politically-correct fashions to frame and influence their ministry.

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - A concept that has become an important part of critical race theory, third-wave feminism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism and probably a host of other “-isms” (that I’m not sophisticated enough to know of) is the notion that we must “deconstruct” “binary” oppositions that have been used to perpetuate and legitimize societal power structures that favor a specific group over another.