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John 3:16 and the journey from darkness to light
On the Readings for March 11, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Lent […]
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Cardinal Zen: Chinese Catholics’ “continuous harassments…would take volumes to be narrated.”
I would like the express my gratitude to Cardinal Zen for agreeing to answer a few questions for Catholic World Report at this crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church in China. Over […]
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Catholicism at the bottom of the planet
A priest remembers his time ministering to those living and working in one of the world’s harshest environments. […]
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Cardinal Zen: Vatican-China proposal weakens the Church
“Better no deal than a bad deal,” the cardinal told Raymond Arroyo, host of the EWTN news show The World Over. […]
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Chesterton, St. Francis, and the bottomless pit of unfathomable thanks
How I learned that the best kind of prayer is thanksgiving, the best kind almsgiving is thanksgiving, and the best kind of abstinence is thanksgiving. […]
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Profits at the service of people: The core of Catholic business ethics
New forms of organization provide vehicles through which business professionals can answer the challenge that the Church places before them. […]
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Faith and Sci-Fi: The Christian Universe of “A Wrinkle in Time”
Much of today’s popular dystopian YA fiction with a sci-fi twist packs an exciting punch, yet Christians in search of good literature might find themselves […]
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Parsing the “T”
We’re dealing here with real psychological distress – “gender dysphoria” in the technical vocabulary – and that this and similar problems ought not be political […]
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Nature is God’s prose, miracles are His poetry
Belief is serious business, and God wants no one to be duped for He is, as the traditional act of faith, declares, the One Who […]
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Enough Homer Simpsons; TV needs more Jack Pearsons
This Is Us offers a refreshingly positive depiction of fatherhood. […]