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Selected Letters of John Updike
Selected Letters of John Updike:Edited by James Schiff (Penguin Random House, $73, 912 pages) John Updike is perhaps the preeminent example of what is called a man of letters – …
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Modern Monsters: Political Ideologies and Their War against the Catholic Church
Modern Monsters: Political Ideologues and Their War against the Catholic Church:George Marlin (St. Augustine’s Press, $45.50, 227 pages) Version 1.0.0 George Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need-USA, …
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Indiana, Tennessee declare June to be Nuclear Family Month (CWN)
Indiana and Tennessee have designated June as Nuclear Family Month—one by gubernatorial proclamation, the other following legislative votes.
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Vatican newspaper highlights Qaraqosh’s post-ISIS rebirth (CWN)
In a prominent front-page article in its June 3 edition, the Vatican newspaper highlighted the revival of Qaraqosh, an Iraqi Christian city occupied by the Islamic State in Iraq and …
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Mexican bishop: Lack of mature faith leads Catholics to fall into esotericism
Mexicoʼs bishops have a established a new pastoral ministry to meet the growing need of people experiencing spiritual, moral, and physical suffering, which could also be of malevolent origin. Praying …
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Mexican bishop: Lack of mature faith leads Catholics to fall into esotericism
As head of the recently established ministry team for the Pastoral Care of Consolation and the Ministry of Exorcism (DEPAC, by its Spanish acronym) of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, Bishop …
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We Have Never Been Alone
Given our current cultural “disclosure” moment, the 1997 film Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, has taken on a strangely prophetic quality. Nearly thirty years later, its themes are …
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Cardinal McElroy removes Msgr. Rossetti, prominent exorcist (CWN)
Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., announced on June 3 that he had removed Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, a famed exorcist, “as an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington, and ended …
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The Spirituality of Maria von Trapp
In December, I wrote about Maria von Trapp and, in particular, her book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949), on which the famous musical The Sound of Music …
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Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: Archbishop Nwachukwu invites us to proclaim the Resurrection of Christ to the world, following the example of the martyrs
Rome – The worldwide network of the Pontifical Mission Societies is today a vibrant reality, driven by “one simple goal: to bring the message of Jesus Christ to places and …