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By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - One of the great strengths of Catholicism is its delicate balance between the “feminine” and “masculine” elements of religion… I’m aware that talking about masculine and feminine elements of religion is not the thing to do nowadays. We are supposed to think of religion as genderless, just as God is genderless; that we are Catholic, not qua male or qua female, but qua human being… I grant that philosophers and theologians.. hold that God, being an immaterial and hence bodiless being, is sex-less. All the same, Christianity has always used anthropomorphic language when speaking about God: God as male, as Father. Jesus himself spoke of God as Father.

By Matt Hadro, CNA - Kendrick Castillo, an 18 year-old who died in May while helping disarm a school shooter in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, was honored by the Knights of Columbus… “And as we go through life, just remember, be like Kendrick. Be selfless,” John Castillo, father of Kendrick Castillo, said upon accepting the Caritas Medal on behalf of his son…. “I wish could say I taught Kendrick those things. There’s a few things I did teach him,” Castillo said about his son’s reputation for service. “But in all actuality, he was the angel who saved my life, who taught me how to live. I will never forget him.”