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This is a line from the Ashrei prayer. Ashrei is a prayer typically recited three times a day by observant Jews.

If, let’s say, the president of our country greeted you or, let’s say, the leader of your church or the governor or senator of your state, would you be sitting down while they continued to stand?

During Yom Kippur we recite prayers where we hit our chest as we recite each transgression.

We don’t have recent numbers as to percentage of young men serving a full-time teaching mission. However, in 1991 a survey was done, which found that 32 percent of young men serve two 2-year teaching missions.

When we harm others, we create the potential — when all the causes and conditions come together— to be on the receiving end of harm ourselves in the future.

At the same time, it is also a fact that many—probably the great majority—of Catholic moral theologians disagree and would advise a woman that she may, in good conscience, use an artificial method of birth control to avoid a life-threatening pregnancy.