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Sep 2024
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Whoever Is Not Against Us Is For Us

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, the first reading and Gospel this Sunday have to do with the Church at war with itself. The devil is the scatterer, the divider, and one of his favorite tricks is to take the Church—which is meant to be an instrument of the Gospel in the world—and to turn us against one another.

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