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The Best of Christmas Poetry: A Festive Garland of Verse

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If I were to package together all my favourite Christmas poems, wrapping them up for my friends and placing them under the tree, which would I choose? Having asked myself this question, I set about […]

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“The Lord upholds my life”: Reflections on 1968, the annus horribilis

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Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation from St. Joseph High School in Toms River, New […]

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CNS has a great video of Cardinal Francis Arinze describing the moment yesterday when Pope Benedict announced his resignation. “When we had concluded that [discussion of canonizations] we were about to get the blessing and […]

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