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New documentary addresses the dating crisis
If you have child or grandchild in their 20s or 30s, you’ve certainly heard about dating woes. Instead of dating and on the path to a possible marriage, some are …
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Father Adam Sztark: The Polish Jesuit who died saving Jewish children
The 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place more synonymous with depravity than probably any other corner of the earth, was marked in January. Amid the horrors of …
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Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part V
The great metaphysical truth on which the whole of Sacred Scripture opens, and to which everything from beginning to end testifies, is that the world in which we live and …
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Sister Connie’s life and death taught me that grief is not an enemy, but a companion
My 82-year-old spiritual director, Sr. Connie Kramer, had an inoperable brain tumor in the shape of a butterfly. Her spiritual guidance was present until the end. Grief calls us to …
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Bruce Springsteen provides a soundtrack to the liturgy of the streets
In his latest single, “Streets of Minneapolis,” Bruce Springsteen offers Americans a soundtrack to the liturgy of protest.
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ASIA/SOUTH KOREA – Seoul WYD Organizing Committee: “Full support for the participation of young people from distant lands”
Seoul – “World Youth Day Seoul 2027 will be the first WYD to be held in a country with a non-Christian majority and the second in Asia. “It will offer …
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AFRICA/DR CONGO – Copper and cobalt from Congo soon in American hands
Kinshasa – Security in exchange for minerals. This is the “deal” between the United States government and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which forms the basis of the “U.S.-DRC Strategic …
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Bl. Bartolo Longo—O Mary, mirror of patience, you alone are my help in my temptations.
O Mary, mirror of patience, you alone are my help in my temptations. — Bl. Bartolo Longo
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The Love of Excellence
John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916) was the first bishop of Peoria, Illinois–born in Lebanon, Kentucky of one of the oldest Catholic families in America. Ordained in 1863 and consecrated bishop in …
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Feb. 7 Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
The Roman Martyrology commemorates Blessed Pius IX (1792-1878), who reigned as pope from 1846-1878. He was the last pope to hold temporal power for the Papal States, before they were …