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Christmas, Not Politics

Catholic Adventurer
By Catholic Adventurer

It’s Christmas. Let us focus on the transcendent truth that God was born to us as a man to save us from sin and death. Be joyful and take the time to contemplate this great and deep mystery and how it effects your life. Thinking and posting about politics is a waste of time and energy in the face of so great a mystery of God’s love

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