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Convert and priest reflects on the gift and mission of “putting together”

December 14, 2023 Kathy Schiffer 2

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus shared the parable of the talents with his disciples. The foolish man, afraid of losing the talent his employer had given him, buried it in the ground; while others […]

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Monasteries linked to the Archangel Michael share a mission and a message

June 17, 2022 Kathy Schiffer 20

Dotting the mountaintops of Europe, stretching 2,500 miles and aligned like pearls on a string, lie seven ancient monasteries. Some of the historic structures still house the cloistered religious orders which founded them, hundreds of […]

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The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication

January 31, 2018 Edward N. Peters 21

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 […]

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Who were the Three Wise Men? A priest’s quest for the truth

November 20, 2017 CWR Staff 10

“If I am correct that the Magi story is rooted in history,” says Fr. Dwight Longenecker about his book Mystery of the Magi, “then this […]

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