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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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MIND DUST

A postulate of materialism that the human mind results from a combination of particles of mind that have always existed in association with material atoms. A rival theory, e.g., Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), is emergent evolution, which claims that the mind is a natural product in the process of biological evolution.

Fri10 July
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Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates today: St. Canute (or Knud) (1043-1086), King of Denmark. St. Canute was put to death out of hatred of his faith and his zeal in working for its extension in his kingdom. He was killed in St. Alban's Church in Odense. Sts. Rufina and Secunda,…

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