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Tending God’s Garden: Adam’s Vocation and Ours

February 14, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 15

Over the past few months, much of my time and energy has been devoted to a side project exploring God’s two books through the lens of Pope Benedict’s dialogue with atheism. Now, however, I’d like […]

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The Mystery of Creation and the Sacrament of Marriage

October 5, 2024 Carl E. Olson 10

Readings: • Gen 2:18-24 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 • Heb 2:9-11 • Mk 10:2-16 “No human institution,” writes Jorge Cardinal Medina Estévez in Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press, 2003), “is […]

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Creation’s Rebellion: What changed after the Fall?

April 1, 2024 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 18

When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world, the default Christian answer is because of Adam’s sin. This belief is certainly not without warrant. Indeed, a number of […]

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Pope Francis: One must never dialogue with the devil

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

Pope Francis delivers his general audience address to pilgrims in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 27, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis inaugurated a new catechetical serie… […]

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Full text of Bishop Paul Coakley’s pastoral letter on gender dysphoria, transgender movement

May 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 9

Archbishop Paul Coakley. Courtesy photo. / null

Oklahoma City, Okla., May 1, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Editor’s note: Below is the full text of Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley’s pastoral letter “On the Unity of the Body and Soul: Accompan… […]

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The Immaculate Conception and the seamless garment of doctrine

December 8, 2019 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 8

Many Catholics misunderstand the meaning of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is also the patronal feast of our nation. In their minds they confuse the Immaculate Conception of […]

The Dispatch

Genesis, Original Sin, and Original Happiness

February 17, 2019 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

Throughout both creation accounts, the emphasis is on the order, beauty and happiness which resulted from God’s creative activity. Often, people think of original sin when they think of Genesis, but a more basic theme […]

The Dispatch

Four basic truths about Genesis and Creation

February 12, 2019 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 11

Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on February 12, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Beginning yesterday and for the next couple of […]

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Who is government for?

January 1, 2019 James Kalb 5

The problem with government today is that it leaves out human beings. That’s not an oversight. It follows from the basic principles on which public thought is now carried on. The kind of thought now […]

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Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday

February 14, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 5

Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]

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