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He was speaking about being too guarded against inexplicable wonders, being so sophisticated that we \u201cmiss Christmas.\u201d \u00a0But I think his warning is just as useful when we encounter inexplicable horrors.\u00a0Just as we savvy, sophisticated, skeptical\u00a0Catholics\u00a0are in danger of insulating ourselves against the glorious works of God, we might also\u00a0miss the blunt and obvious signs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":16523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1147,1145,286,1143,1146,1144,4,1122],"class_list":["post-16522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cardinal-juan-sandoval-iniguez","tag-demons","tag-evil","tag-exorcisms","tag-father-jose-antonio-fortea","tag-mexico","tag-national-catholic-register","tag-satan"],"yoast_head":"\n
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