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The Coronavirus and Sitting Quietly in a Room Alone

March 17, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 3

Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” The great seventeenth-century philosopher thought that most of us, most of the time, distract ourselves from what […]

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann, and “The Spirit of 1884”

January 4, 2020 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 6

Mother Seton and Bishop Neumann were persons of a deep and abiding faith in Divine Providence. They didn’t conduct massive and expensive feasibility studies to […]

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Shocked, shocked! On Catholics and belief in the Real Presence

August 8, 2019 Amy Welborn 86

“Each time the Mass is offered, the fruits of our Redemption are poured anew upon our souls. By uniting ourselves with the sacred rite of the Mass, and above all by receiving Holy Communion, we […]

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Eucharistic examination of conscience on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi

June 20, 2019 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 11

This week we find ourselves in another one of those anomalous liturgical situations, wherein the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Corpus Christi on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (as is the case in the […]

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A unique credo and affirmation of faith by a distinctive mind

March 11, 2019 Filip Mazurczak 5

From the rise of the “nones” to the eschewing of Christianity for Eastern spiritual practices such as yoga, the American religious landscape has been changing for decades. Clearly, the watershed moment was the countercultural 1960s. […]

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Gravity, Gravitas, and Grave Matters

June 19, 2018 James Casper 3

As the Japanese novelist Shusako Endo noted, people often ponder where they were born, a circumstance over which they had no control, while giving little […]

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