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Why Can’t Catholics Be Happy? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
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Some Catholics are thriving—young, joyful, devout—living out traditions the Church once praised. So why are they being told to stop? Fr. Robert McTeigue unpacks the paradox of "forbidden joy" and what it reveals about the Church today.
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