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When Stuff Is For Dinner
My mom can cook. I mean flat-out cook. To me, the real test of gourmand greatness isn’t concocting exotic dishes from strange recipes that call for ingredients you’ve never heard …
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AFRICA/DR CONGO – Five years after the assassination of Ambassador Attanasio, the situation in the east of the country has worsened
Kinshasa – On the fifth anniversary of the assassination of the Italian ambassador to Kinshasa, Luca Attanasio, Carabinieri officer Vittorio Iacovacci, and Mustafa Milabo, a driver for the World Food …
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ASIA/PHILIPPINES – Forty years after the “Rosary revolution”, a “revolution of the heart” is urgently needed today
Manila – “Filipinos today face a new ‘moral fatigue’ and, forty years after the historic People Power Revolution of 1986, they are called to actively safeguard freedom and truth.” This …
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Varden: Don’t use the Gospel as a weapon
Norwegian Cistercian Bishop Erik Varden opened the Vatican’s annual Lenten spiritual exercises for the Roman Curia by urging Christians to resist using the Gospel as a political weapon and to …
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The End of Hollywood is an Opportunity for Catholics
I signed my last SAG contract in 2021. That was intentional. After a grueling year managing what was at the time the largest production budget in independent film history, I …
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A Catholic’s Dubia for the SSPX
The SSPX has been in the news recently, given their announcement that they plan to consecrate bishops without papal approval. This, of course, raises the question of whether such consecrations …
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Podcast: The secret to a life of peace, according to John Dear
On this week’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear reflects on the importance of daily meditation, letting go of control and living in intimate, trusting relationship with God.
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Q&A: Fr. Constanza reelected to lead Paulist Fathers, who hope to allay US polarization
NCR interviews Fr. René Constanza, whose reelection as president of the Paulist Fathers comes at a moment of both continuity and challenge for one of the most distinctly American Catholic …
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Mocking Trump is easy, but it isn’t a political strategy
“Trump is a poseur, and his most essential pose is that he cares about anyone but himself,” writes NCR’s Michael Sean Winters. “That is the kind of framing that will …
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St. Polycarp—Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never did me any injury …
Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never did me any injury; how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior? — St. Polycarp