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“You have to decide.”
Father Karol Wojtyła’s signature phrase as a confessor and spiritual director was, “You have to decide.” And it had nothing to do with a notion being […]
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At Oxford, abortion advocates shout down speakers rather than debate rationally
A recent debate at Oxford about an approaching vote in Ireland about abortion was disrupted for nearly an hour as a pro-abortion feminist group yelled […]
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“Filling the Churches”
While some bishops talk a lot about their concern for our Hispanic brothers and sisters, that talk tends to ring hollow because it is not […]
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The stuff of faith
An interview with Mike and Grace Aquilina, co-authors of new book that presents the history of the Church through a hundred different objects, including from a […]
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Fr. Weinandy: “The USCCB strongly encouraged me to resign.”
Some more statements from Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy about his letter to Pope Francis and his resignation from his role as consultant to the USCCB. […]
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On the 40th anniversary of the first Evangelical-Catholic dialogue on mission
The starting point of the 1977 conversations was how Catholics and Evangelicals serve the same mission of evangelizing, drawing people to God, using different approaches […]
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All Souls: A day for hope and grief
The continuing connection of the dead to the living highlights the paradox at the heart of Catholic teachings on death. […]
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An enduring novel about persecution, faith, and sacramental drama
Father Robert Hugh Benson’s 1912 novel Come Rack! Come Rope! still speaks to us today. […]
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Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
In the moral universe of Bolshevism, two plus two could indeed equal five – or seven, or three, or whatever the Revolution required. […]
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Wiker’s study of the Reformation an enlightening, balanced reflection on past and present
Brimming with fascinating facts, The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know is an excellent short history of the Reformation, the ideas that […]