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After 900-mile trek, Chicago priest urges action and empathy on deportations
“We need to do more than talk,” Fr. Gary Graf said. “We need to engage people in conversation. We need to step into the middle. We need to mediate in …
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Ukrainian Catholic leader calls for fervent prayer, fasting for peace (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
Stating that the Russo-Ukrainian war has entered a “particularly dangerous” phase, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church called on members of his church to pray the Rosary daily …
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Caritas disappointed in result of UN climate change conference (Caritas Internationalis)
Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, issued a statement on the agreement reached by participants in COP30, the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil. “COP30 …
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Thursday of the First Week of Advent
On that day they will sing this song in the land of Judah: “A strong city have we; he sets up walls and ramparts to protect us. Open …
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St. Athanasius—The Word was not degraded by receiving a body …
The Word was not degraded by receiving a body, so that he should seek to “receive” God’s gift. Rather he deified what he put on; and, more than that, he …
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Showing Mercy in Daily Life
When we think of Pope Francis, what comes to mind? Hopefully you are thinking about mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. These are all characteristics of his papacy and in fact, Pope …
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Dec. 4 Thursday of the First Week of Advent; Opt. Mem. of St. John Damascene, Priest and Doctor, Weekday
The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene (676-749), who was a learned theologian who carefully gathered together and transmitted to us the teaching of the Greek Fathers, …
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Archbishop Broglio rips Trump campaign against Venezuelan drug trade (America)
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese of the Military Services, has criticized the Trump administration’s attacks on Venezuelan drug traffickers at sea. “In the fight against drugs, the end …
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Vatican commission says No to female deacons (Vatican News)
A top-level Vatican commission ordered by Pope Francis to study the possibility of ordaining female deacons has issued a report that “excludes the possibility” of diaconal ordination for women. But …
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Faith here and now
(Image: Dolina Modlitwy / Unsplash.com) Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national …