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# How Catholic Social Teaching Can Ruin Your Life | Catholic World Report - Global Church news and views
- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/how-catholic-social-teaching-can-ruin-your-life/
- Published: 2015-11-24T23:55:47.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-24T23:55:47.000Z
- Author: Joshua Lore
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1788408094757, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-03 00:01

“In the last few years, however, I’ve come to realize more and more that there is no escaping the fact that real Christianity, when lived out fully, makes you look like a weirdo, a misfit, and a loser in the eyes of many. At the same time, I’ve come to see more deeply than I had previously just how much of Christianity in North America is held hostage by bourgeois categories and expectations which hide from us the strange, appalling, and radical demands of the gospel.”

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