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“The Sober Catholic Way” is now available at more online stores!!!

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The Sober Catholic Way is now available through numerous other online retailers such as Barnes & Noble and Apple Books. You can visit this universal link and find your fave ebook shop: “The Sober Catholic Way” on Books2Read 

Just click on the appropriate logo for the store you prefer. Don’t forget, it’s also available on Amazon Kindle.!

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I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

“The Sober Catholic Way” is available on Amazon Kindle!

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Take a look at my latest Sober Catholic Book: “The Sober Catholic Way,” now available at Amazon as a Kindle book. Here’s the cover (designed by my very lovely, patient and understanding wife, Rose Santuci-Sofranko.)

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“The Sober Catholic Way” helps Catholics by describing the many ways in which their faith can assist in maintaining sobriety. Drawn from nearly two decades of blogging at SoberCatholic.com, “The Sober Catholic Way” shows the importance of the sacraments, the Bible, the Catechism and other books. It continues on with the various ways one can “live” out Catholicism by nurturing devotions to the Sacred Heart, Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints. All of these contribute to sobriety as well as one’s spiritual progression!

Discover the importance of the Real Presence, the Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, St. Joseph, St. Therese (the “Little Flower”) and Matt Talbot. You’ll get ideas on how to apply the Beatitudes, the Divine Mercy Message, as well as learning about the Apparitions of Our Lady at Guadalupe, Lourdes and Fatima and how they can guide one’s life.

“The Sober Catholic Way” is a basic handbook on how anyone can live a sober life. This book does not guarantee anything, but doing these things have helped the author keep his sobriety intact since May 22, 2002. Will he ever drink again? Quite unlikely, but the tools to help recover from a relapse are in every chapter! The love and mercy of God is everlasting and endless!

I am working on a paperback version, as well as additional print and digital distribution avenues. Check back for updates! Oh, yeah, GO BUY A COPY!!! 🙂 (And thank you!)

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Please turn your ad blockers off when reading Sober Catholic!

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Please turn your ad blockers off when reading Sober Catholic! I receive a small income from ads placed on the blog, and while it isn’t much, it helps with incidentals and so forth. EVERY SINGLE ad placed on Sober Catholic is from a Catholic source; be it a business, publisher, service or charity, etc. 

When I browse, I typically have ad blockers running, so I understand. However, when the site is an interest of mine AND they run relevant ads, I disable the ad blocker as I find they add value to the site. 

So, please help me out and disable your ad blocker when visiting me! Most ad blockers have per site settings, so the blocker will turn back on after you leave me. 

(You can also donate by PayPal-ing me!)

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

A funny thing happened while writing today’s Sacred Heart Friday post

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A funny thing happened while writing today’s Sacred Heart Friday post. I was writing this (brilliant) piece in my series of posts on the Alliance of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary and linking it to today’s feast day on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Unfortunately, after reading it and thankfully before hitting “send to blog” I noticed that it had much more to do with the Immaculate Conception of Mama Mary than her Birth. Actually, it didn’t have anything to do with her Birth.

Oops.

Yes, if I had started drafting it earlier this week I might have noticed. But I was very busy all week, especially today with stuff, and only got around to writing it tonight. 

So, no Sacred Heart Friday post for today. But there’s an utterly brilliant one scheduled to go out on Friday, December 8th!

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Content relevant ads now running!

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Dear Readers: SoberCatholic.com is now running ads! Please disable your adblockers, because these are good ads! They’re relevant to this blog inasmuch as their content is Catholic, or Catholic-friendly. I have control over them, so if I see any I don’t like, I can do something about it. As of right now, there’s only one down in the footer (bottom of screen.) Soon there will be some in the sidebar and a few embedded within posts. 

So, if you’d like to support this blog but don’t want to PayPal Me, please disable your adblockers. I know, ads can be annoying, but I personally have found that they’re only really bothersome if they don’t have anything to do with the subject matter of the blog. When they are relevant, I always disable my adblockers. I often enjoy the Catholic ads on Catholic sites, gardening ads on gardening sites, and so on. They add to the experience in a positive way. 

(By the way, I never posted anything this past Friday for Sacred Heart Friday. I wasn’t feeling well and while I did write something that’s currently in the drafts folder, I wasn’t up to publishing it. My laptop was off most of the weekend as was my brain and I was generally feeling out of sorts. The post should be finished sometime today or tomorrow. I might backdate it to Friday.)

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Sober Catholic Blog Discussion Group on MeWe

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As a companion to the Sober Catholic Page on Facebook, I am starting a similar thing on MeWe. MeWe is probably the largest and best known of the ‘alternative to Facebook’ social networks out there. I’ve been a member since early 2015 and am fairly active. 

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Matt talbot The Sober Catholic Blog Discussion Group is where readers of SoberCatholic.com can come together and discuss posts. Discussion will initially just center around posts, but hopefully within that framework people can expand and talk about the Matt Talbot Way of Sobriety and anything related to alcoholism and addiction recovery from a Catholic perspective.

Please click on this to join: CLICK ON ME TO JOIN THE SOBER CATHOLIC BLOG DISCUSSION GROUP ON MEWE.

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Although it is a Group, it will at first behave like a Brand Page. MeWe charges for Brand Pages and I’m not interested in paying $1.99 a month. Call me cheap, but Facebook and LinkedIn don’t charge. Of course, they advertise and harvest your data, and MeWe doesn’t. So, maybe someday I’ll fork over the loot, but not right now. At the moment, a Group will suffice, especially since the settings can be manipulated to make it act like a Page; that is, with posts and shares by the owner, and members just commenting on things. I may open up discussion to things as a whole, where people can create posts in the Group, but for now, I’m not yet willing to do that.

Thank you, and I hope to see you around! Click on this to connect with me there: Contact me on MeWe!

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Blog overhaul UPDATE! (new from yesterday’s post)

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UPDATE: (new from yesterday’s post) Due to some massive new updates to WordPress that are appearing next week (see embedded video if you care), some changes will be delayed, such as the new theme and the subscription thingy. I’ve asked a question in a MeWe WordPress Group about the latter, (admin is the same guy in the video, I think) so hopefully that’ll be resolved soon, too.

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Blog Overhaul (almost) done

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The blog overhaul I mentioned earlier is mostly done. There are only two things left: figure out the subscription thingy and edit a page on St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Militia of the Immaculata. 

The changes are across the top. See:

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They’re all those blocky things below the Sober Catholic: Catholicism, Recovery, Sobriety, etc. stuff and above the most recent post.

Just click on them and see what’s there. I think it’s an improvement over the links-in-sidebar model, plus you can share the pages!

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

Addiction and Mental Health Resources Page is up!

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As a part of my overhaul of this blog, I’ve deleted many resources along the sidebars and moved them over to their own page; this would make it easier for readers using mobile devices to navigate around as well as for anyone to share it.

You can access the page along to tabs across the top, or go here: Addiction and Mental Health Resources Page

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)

And so I published something on Medium today!

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Medium is a publishing platform where anyone with writing aspirations can sign up, write stuff and publish it where no one or maybe lots of someones will read it. You can also earn money. The trick to the latter is that you have to join their partnership program and for that, you need at least 100 followers. There’s a lot to it, and some of the lotness means you have to shell out money, but following someone is free. 

This is what I published to Medium today: Two Theories on How the World Ends

If you would be so kind as to click on the ‘follow’ link at the article, that would make me really happy. What am I going to be writing there? General oddments, some Catholic, a lot not. Nothing injurious to your Faith, of course 😉 

Much of what I will publish there I’ve written elsewhere (like on Paul Sofranko Space).But any ‘old material’ will be edited and updated to meet the needs of a wider audience. I do have ideas for completely new stuff, so it won’t be just rehashed old stuff.

I will be uploading and publishing some old Paul Sofranko Space stuff over the next few days.

On another note: I’m still working out the details of the overhaul to SoberCatholic that I wrote about earlier. Change is hard and although it will be good, I usually struggle with carrying it through. All the basics have been done: the new Pages are written and ready to go, all I have to do is… do it. 

I have a new book! "The Sober Catholic Way" is a handbook on how anyone can live a sober life, drawn from over 17 years of SoberCatholic posts! It's out now on "Amazon," "Apple Books," "B&N" and and others!"!

My two other books are still available! "The Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics" and "The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts" (Thank you!!)