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'Why does the Catholic Church hate gay people?'
Father Carter Griffin
Or rather, why do so many people think that it does?
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Aventine meditations
George Weigel
For all that it's witnessed over the centuries, the Aventine hadn't previously seen what's happened ...
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Reading, writing, prayer, fasting
Father James V. Schall, S.J.
Something "liberal" should color our education, something that frees us from the absorption found in...
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Rigid Diversity
Theodore Dalrymple
It is not necessary for a government to be thoroughgoingly despotic for us to live in a totalitarian...
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Fasting in Body – and Mind – during Lent
Pope Leo the Great
Lent must be kept not only by avoiding bodily impunity but also by avoiding errors of thought and fa...
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Safety Last
Robert Royal
A music critic once wrote about the Austro-American pianist Artur Schnabel that he was great because...
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In Praise of – Real – Fasting
Helen Freeh
A pamphlet at my local parish caught my eye recently.
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Beginning Our Lenten Journey
Pope Benedict XVI
On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter the season of Lent, beginning a spiritu...
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When priests look like coal miners
Father George W. Rutler
I used to dread Ash Wednesday because of the endless lines of people coming for ashes.
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Coming Out of the Closet
Father Jerry J. Pokorsky
At times, priests reveal intimate secrets about themselves from the pulpit.
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