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Oct 2025
7m 17s

How to Get Better Friends

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You may have close friends in your life, but do you have virtuous friendships?

Fr. Mike Schmitz shares three kinds of friendship and explains that while it's important to have good friends, you need to have this special kind of friendship with at least one person in your life: virtuous friendship.

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