(3) Don't Plant Your Seeds: Chapter Two, Part One
The Serpent and the Maiden: The Dangers of Covert Abuse
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Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic Guide on Domestic Abuse
Excerpt of Chapter Two: The Serpent and the Maiden
“At the root of every act of violence against one’s neighbor there is a concession to the ‘thinking’ of the evil one, the one who ‘was a murderer from the beginning’ (Jn 8:44).”
(St. John Paul II, The Gospel of …