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Who Baptizes? Sacramental specificity in an auto-correct world

February 21, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 16

“Do this in memory of me.” –Luke 22:19 For a few years now, I have observed the slow but steady corrosion of my spelling ability. With the rising ubiquity of spell-check and especially auto-correct features […]

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Pope Francis appeals that migrants not be sent back to unsafe countries

October 24, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address on Oct. 24, 2021. / Vatican Media

Vatican City, Oct 24, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).
Pope Francis made an appeal for migrants Sunday, calling on the international community to stop deporting migrants to unsafe co… […]

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Catholic hospital system illegally refusing COVID shot exemptions, lawyers allege

October 1, 2021 Joseph M. Hanneman 10

More than a dozen workers at a Missouri-based health-care system have been illegally subjected to repeated interrogation about their religious beliefs, threats from supervisors and for some, firing for refusing to take a COVID-19 gene-serum […]

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Pope Francis: Going to confession is ‘abandoning oneself to Love’

March 12, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Vatican City, Mar 12, 2021 / 10:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis said Friday that going to confession is an act of “abandoning oneself to Love,” allowing the God of love to heal and transform one’s heart.“Experiencing confession in this way means letting one… […]

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Sharing the love and mercy of God in a desperate world

April 27, 2019 Fr. Charles Fox 4

” On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to […]

The Dispatch

Huck Finn the Murderer and modern outrage

January 8, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 3

It’s time to admit we’re addicted to outrage. Other people are just so darn wicked. Or liberal. Or racist. Or tacky. Our political leaders know how to channel this outrage into power for themselves. Our […]

Essay

This Father’s Day: Vow to be a Committed Catholic Father

June 17, 2018 Matthew James Christoff 2

While there are numerous ways to categorize and analyze Catholic fatherhood, one way is to consider how Catholic men live out truth and mercy as […]

The Dispatch

Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation

February 21, 2018 George Weigel 6

Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]

The Dispatch

St. Joseph: A just man and a sure guide during Advent

December 18, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 5

There is never a big splash in Joseph’s life – no craving for headlines, no domination, no unreal demands or expectations, just simple and complete […]

The Dispatch

In Defense of Jonah

October 28, 2017 Alan L. Anderson 5

In the Reluctant Prophet we have the classic (and beautiful) case of God ‘choosing a crooked pencil to draw a straight line’, for Jonah is […]

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From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 14 June 2012 (VIS) – “On the afternoon of Wednesday 13 June, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and president of the […]

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