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Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic identity
Lent is the perfect time, or as Isaiah 49.8 puts it, the “acceptable time,” to begin a journey of Christian difference. […]
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70th miracle of Lourdes affirmed by the Church
Of the 7,000 cases of unexplained cures that have been recorded at Lourdes, only the 70th was formally declared by the Church to be miraculous […]
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“America” magazine’s survey of women in the Church
An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential […]
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“The Greatest Sin is losing the sense of Sin”
One wonders if Pope Francis, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, and Cardinal Francis Coccopalmerio are as adept as Pope Pius XII in comprehending the impact of […]
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A crisis of leadership? Francis’ defenders call for reform on sex abuse
For even his staunch supporters, Francis’ moral authority hangs in the balance. […]
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Men without conviction, churches without people
If ministers of the Gospel cannot challenge the world’s distortions of the Gospel with the truth of the Gospel, but fall back instead on penny-ante […]
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“Humanae Vitae” and the key to the mighty mystery of sex
St. Paul rhapsodized on the beauty of marital love as a great mystery, indeed the sign of Christ’s love for His Church. Contraceptive intercourse, on […]
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Sending Abp Scicluna to Chile raises more questions than it answers
The Vatican is sending a highly-qualified investigator to examine the case against Bishop Barros. Is this an ad hoc response to bad press, or a […]
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Promoting international religious liberty provides stability, fights terrorism
Legislation formally establishing international religious freedom as U.S. policy has been on the books since 1998, but some experts say the government has implemented it […]
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The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication
The repeated, though for now misguided, calls for excommunication in these cases, and the repeated, but worth-considering, calls for withholding holy Communion in these cases […]