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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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On Humour and Satire
Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was one of the great writers of the Catholic literary revival in the early twentieth-century, known not only for numerous writings and radio broadcasts but for a …
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Literature in Its Social Aspects
Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902), son of the poet Sir Aubrey De Vere, was born in County Limerick, Ireland. He studied metaphysics at Trinity College, Dublin and moved on to Oxford …
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Imagination
This essay by Coventry Patmore (1823-1896), one of the great English poets and writers of the Catholic literary revival in the late nineteenth century, explores the importance of the faculty …
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Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was the son of a Polish political exile, born in an area of Ukraine which had once been part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1886 he …
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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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