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The deacon at the local\u00a0parish\u00a0has been kind enough to set aside some time to chat with me tonight. \u00a0I\u2019m not having a debate, but a conversation. \u00a0I\u2019ve been reading plenty of apologetics and having debates of my own, but I was planning to have this be a less academic-themed discussion. The main question I\u2019d like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-parsing-catholicism","tag-open-questions"],"yoast_head":"\n
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