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Reflections on Archbishop Viganò's Courageous Thir…
Msgr. Charles Pope
In thin-skinned times such as these, Archbishop Viganò's most recent letter shines forth as a clario...
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Three Women, Three Decisions Against Abortion
Maureen Mullarkey
The grace of each woman's decision throws into relief the lurid jubilation in Ireland over the resul...
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John Paul II, Youth Minister
George Weigel
To help maturing adults ask the big questions and wrestle with the permanent things is to pay them t...
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The influence of saints
Father George W. Rutler
There are those who would not let facts get in the way of theory, and such was the English philosoph...
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How the Church Has Changed the World: Fields of At…
Anthony Esolen
The boy, delicate in frame, approached his father in his study.
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Great Conversion Stories: Marshall McLuhan
John Janaro
In the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of media called "television" entered homes everywhere as an immen...
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Horrors at an abortion clinic went ignored
Father Raymond J. de Souza
This column contains material that is difficult to read.
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A Synod also on Vocational Discernment
Michael Pakaluk
I bet you do not know that the official title of the current synod is "Youth, the Faith, and Vo...
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Cardinal Sarah: 'Watering down' Church teaching wo…
Robert Cardinal Sarah
Young people are idealistic and want clarity, the cardinal said.
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The Spirit of "The Spirit of the Liturgy…
Robert Cardinal Sarah
"The Church stands and falls with the liturgy." - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
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Modeling Manhood: From Homer to Paul
Regis Nicoll
In Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, a Greek war hero faces imposing challenges in his long journey ho...
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To Beatrix in the Shadows: Johnny Town-mouse After…
Sean Fitzpatrick
One century ago, as the shadows of World War I were fading away, shadows were closing in on Beatrix...
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Everyone Sought to Touch Jesus
Caryll Houselander
Most people who want to know God and who are outside the Church have just one thing that is precious...
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"Let the dead bury their dead"
Pope Benedict XVI
The second man the Lord encounters raises objections that are undoubtedly reasonable.
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The Healing of Bartimaeus
Father Peter John Cameron, O.P.
The Gospel account of the healing of the blind man Bartimaeus is a kind of microcosm of how growth i...
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Archbishop Chaput: 'LGBT' Should Not Be Used in Ch…
Edward Pentin
In his intervention at the youth synod today, the Archbishop of Philadelphia said the Church should ...
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A new apologetics: Bishop Barron's Youth Synod int…
Bishop Robert Barron
Jesus' encounter with two erstwhile disciples on the road to Emmaus provides a beautiful template fo...
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On being wise as serpents
Father George W. Rutler
The opening line of a children's poem by Mary Howitt in 1828 is a caution for growing up in a duplic...
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Friendship & devotion
George Sim Johnston
A review of "Exiles and Fugitives: The Letters of Jacques and Raissa Maritain, Allen Tate, and Carol...
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