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Pushing for more papal pressers

December 12, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Pope Francis should hold regular – maybe even weekly – press conferences. No, seriously. Given Francis’s history of getting in his own way during the in-flight pressers, the idea may seem counter-intuitive or even downright […]

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Roma and Guadalupe

December 11, 2021 Stephen G. Adubato 4

In honor of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I decided to rewatch Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical film Roma. Many reviewers have highlighted the connection between the main character Cleo (based on Cuarón’s childhood nanny) […]

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Joy! Anticipation! Fire?

December 10, 2021 Carl E. Olson 1

Readings: • Zep 3:14-18a • Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 • Phil 4:4-7 • Lk 3:10-18 “Great joy,” wrote G. K. Chesterton, “has in it the sense of immortality…” Joy, like love, hope, and goodness, cannot […]

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Opinion: From the ghetto with love

December 10, 2021 Joseph Pearce 16

For the past few months, I’ve been discovering what it’s like to be living in the ghetto. Ever since the issuing of Traditionis Custodes last July, I know what it feels like to be a second-class citizen […]