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Vatican newspaper highlights clown’s work in war zones (CWN)
The Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent article in its March 26 edition to the work of Marco Rodari, a clown known as Il Pimpa, who attempts to bring joy …
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Will I See My Relatives in Heaven?
DEAR FATHER: Several years ago we lost our son. I am questioning the concept of one heaven, with all the people who have lived from the beginning of mankind being …
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Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent
The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus.Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father.For which of these are you trying to stone me?”The Jews …
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Catechism of the Catholic Church—The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist …
The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. — Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1391
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Mar. 27 Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Weekday
It is one week before Good Friday. Today’s Mass is a further reminder of how hatred against Christ escalated in those final days before Holy Week. Fridays of Lent have …
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Opinion: Reclaiming the culture that made us Catholic
(Image: Karl Fredrickson / Unsplash.com) For too long, Catholics in the United States—myself included—have treated the Church as an extension of our political identities, a sociological distortion that has carried …
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Our Lady’s monthly message 🙏
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Finnish court finds Christian parliamentarian guilty of ‘hate speech’
The Finnish Supreme Court has convicted parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen on one charge related to her expression of her Christian beliefs on marriage and sexual ethics. In the 3-2 decision, the …
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Finnish court finds Christian parliamentarian guilty of ‘hate speech’
Päivi Räsänen, Finland’s interior minister from 2011 to 2015. / Courtesy of ADF International. The Finnish Supreme Court has convicted parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen on one charge related to her expression …
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EWTN remembers Mother Angelica, 10 years after her death
The EWTN Global Catholic Network will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of its foundress, Mother Angelica, with a Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on March 27. …