{"id":32,"date":"2013-04-13T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/pursuedbytruth\/2013\/04\/letter-to-a-young-discerning-catholic\/"},"modified":"2013-04-13T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:06:00","slug":"letter-to-a-young-discerning-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pursuedbytruth\/2013\/04\/letter-to-a-young-discerning-catholic.html","title":{"rendered":"Letter to a Young Discerning Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/485\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-02uQAhfqOoU\/UWh5U6pzaxI\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/UkxMo6e18oQ\/s1600\/letter_it+copy.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/485\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-02uQAhfqOoU\/UWh5U6pzaxI\/AAAAAAAAA2U\/UkxMo6e18oQ\/s400\/letter_it+copy.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Dear Discerning Young Catholic,<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Underachieving in the realm of morality has become so commonplace in our world that we have begun to pretend that sin is transcendent behavior just to make ourselves feel better. There is nothing transcendent about sleeping with someone on the first date, but these days an astounding number of romance movies begin \u201cromance\u201d \u2026..<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height: 19px\"><span style=\"color: red;font-size: large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitumtoday.com\/2013\/04\/13\/letter-to-a-young-discerning-catholic\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more at Ignitum Today\u2026. click <u>here<\/u>!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Discerning Young Catholic, Underachieving in the realm of morality has become so commonplace in our world that we have begun to pretend that sin is transcendent behavior just to make ourselves feel better. 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