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If you want your spiritual life to go well, it’s best to make clear commitments to concrete practices. The basic idea is that structure makes sense of your life; in fact, it makes you free. ...
How does one even begin to assess the legacy of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI? His career spanned over 60 years, and he wore many hats during several tumultuous decades: priest, theologian, theological expert at the ...
In the second issue of Our Sunday Visitor (May 12, 1912), then-Father John Francis Noll, declared, “We doubt if a paper was ever issued which was more warmly welcomed by the Catholic clergy than the ...
Father Patrick Briscoe reflects on how we can rediscover the Eucharist at Bethlehem: "Time and eternity touch and mingle in the birth of Christ. Father Vincent McNabb says, 'Eternity's full tide overwhelms the banks of ...
Economic uncertainty, a war in Eastern Europe, continued domestic political polarization … this past year was marked in many ways by events that have been widely destabilizing and disruptive. But through it all, men and ...
Every year, various myths about Christmas circulate. Some are innocent misunderstandings of things from the Gospels, while others are downright hostile. One of the most common ideas is that Christmas is based on a pagan ...
The costs of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are impossible to quantify. It has been 20 years since that wave of news broke over the Church in the United States. And it has ...
The placement of most saints’ feast days has less to do with the season and more to do with the date of their death. But the Spirit works through that, too, and often the lives ...
In the month of November, we remember and pray for our beloved dead and contemplate the lives of the saints who have gone before us. This month is therefore a good time to ponder the ...
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