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The Bible and the Body and Blood of Christ
On the Readings for Sunday, June 3, 2018, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) […]
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Cardinal Marx offers resignation to Pope Francis
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, pictured in Rome Feb. 24, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Munich, Germany, Jun 4, 2021 / 04:03 am (CNA).
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the 67-year-old archbishop of Munich and Freising, has offered his resignation to Pope Francis.Th… […]
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Can we love the Church?
Love is an act of the will, a decision that we make to give our best to another. Love is often associated with romance and sweeping emotions, but it need not be. When we take […]
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Pope Francis and President Biden may meet on June 15, sources say
President Biden addresses the 2021 National Prayer Breakfast / National Prayer Breakfast
Vatican City, Jun 3, 2021 / 10:30 am (CNA).
According to sources from the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, the first meeting between Pope Francis and President J… […]
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SCOTUS and abortion: Bad precedents need replacing by good ones
The Supreme Court’s announcement that it will consider an abortion case from Mississippi next fall touched off a predictable outpouring of frenzied criticism from pro-choice sources worried lest their cherished ‘right’ to abortion be in […]
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SSPX priest in California prevails in challenge to COVID closure order
The state of California will never again be able to target Our Lady of the Angels Church with a ban on Holy Mass due to COVID-19 under a permanent injunction in a priest’s lawsuit against […]
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Litter in London, Perspective on Poland
How strangely things sometimes work out. In the surreal days of the Coronavirus lockdown, I continued and expanded a self-appointed role as picker-up of litter. Beer cans, old pizza boxes, wrappers of chocolate bars—it’s mostly […]
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Billy Crystal’s new movie is a poignant, universal story of friendship
“Here Today” is a fantastic new movie that stars, and was co-written and directed by, Billy Crystal in his first major movie in nearly a decade. And it may be his best movie ever, next […]
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The oldest cathedral and the newest challenge
It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain vintage (like me) it is, was, and always will be “the Old […]
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Saints in the News, June 2021
Seven Sainthood causes advance Vatican News reports that in an audience on May 22 with Pope Francis, Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presented the Holy Father for […]