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Essay

“Do this in remembrance of Me”: Memory, Culture, Sacrament

October 22, 2022 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 11

Editor’s note: The following keynote address was given by Archbishop Chaput at the Eucharistic Symposium at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington, VA, on October 22, 2022. ——————- Our theme today is the […]

Features

Opinion: The Universal, the Particular, and the Common Good

October 6, 2022 Emile Doak 12

Note: The following is adapted from remarks delivered at the third National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida, on September 13, 2022 I want to talk about the common good and the nation for a couple […]

Essay

St. Thomas and the Sacrament of Charity

June 16, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 9

Before establishing the feast of Corpus Christi in 1264, Pope Urban IV called upon the services of St. Thomas Aquinas for the composition of prayers and hymns for the liturgical celebration of the feast. These […]

Essay

Sitting In his right mind: On being healed from the power of mental Illness

May 16, 2022 Rob Marco 13

I was what you would call “drifting” at the time my father was taken to a psychiatric facility; I had quit my job working in a restaurant and had caught a bus from Philadelphia to […]

Essay

Lent and the Sacraments: Matrimony

March 31, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 10

Quoting the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism begins its reflections on the Sacrament of Matrimony in this manner: The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of […]

Analysis

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 […]

Analysis

Words matter: On Christ, clerics, and the sacraments

February 20, 2022 Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers 15

My wife loves puzzles. She has been working on a thousand-piece puzzle since last December and is determined to complete it by herself. As she nears the end, I noticed that several pieces of the […]

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News Briefs

Invalid baptisms: A Catholic explainer about the facts and the fears 

February 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency 11

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Denver Newsroom, Feb 11, 2022 / 17:19 pm (CNA).
Baptism involves a simple formula: “I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” The celebrant pours water on the he… […]

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Phoenix priest who botched baptisms for decades apologizes, seeks to make amends

February 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 6

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Phoenix, Ariz., Feb 7, 2022 / 17:22 pm (CNA).
A Catholic priest in Phoenix has apologized, asked forgiveness, and resigned as parish pastor after a determination that he had failed to baptize… […]

Books

Why we need the Church, the Sacraments, and the Saints to fight Satan

July 8, 2021 Paul Senz 7

In the first part of my conversation with Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, we spoke about spiritual warfare, fighting Satan, and escaping the darkness of evil. These and many related topics are addressed in his trilogy […]

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