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Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”
Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]
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Pope Francis’ tough talk about media spin rings hollow
The Holy Father’s condemnation of those “who twist reality and invent stories for their own benefit, without concern for the good name of others” is […]
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The Seven Last Words from the Cross: “I Thirst!”
For what does He thirst? Surely not for the narcotic mentioned in Mark 15:36. No, Jesus thirsts for more important things, but the Cross separates […]
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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
Why evil? Why suffering? Why death? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does God seem so far removed from it all? […]
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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “This day you will be with Me in paradise”
Preachers who suggest that Dismas (as tradition speaks of him) “stole heaven” do not do justice to the gratuity of salvation. For in a sense, […]
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Seven Last Words from the Cross: “Father, forgive them…”
What does it take to forgive? A unique mental attitude is required at the natural level; only an infusion of divine grace can elevate that […]
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Modernity and the monster of materialism
We moderns smile condescendingly on the ancients for their worship of false gods. Yet our age has fashioned gods every bit as foolish and ineffectual […]
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True discipleship is “Jesus Christ’s way of life transforming me”
“Following the right doctrines and practices of the Faith is absolutely essential,” says Dr. Edward Sri, author of a new book on discipleship, “but sometimes […]
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Jim Caviezel on what he learned playing St. Luke—and why he thinks “We don’t love Jesus enough”
The actor, who returns to the biblical genre in Paul, Apostle of Christ for first time since starring in The Passion of the Christ, says, […]
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Nature is God’s prose, miracles are His poetry
Belief is serious business, and God wants no one to be duped for He is, as the traditional act of faith, declares, the One Who […]