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Daniel C. Mattson is the author of Why I Don't Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace (Ignatius Press), and a writer and a public speaker who proclaims the Good News of the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality. A professional orchestral trombone player, Mattson has performed and presented master classes around the world, including at the famed St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia.
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Each Lent, we are called to the penitential disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. In the past, I’ve focused on fasting most of all, believing it to be the most important of the three. It […]

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