 New film 'Holy Silence' tries to get into the mind of Pope Pius XII during World War II...
Popes are in these days. Films about them are, anyway. The last few months have given us the fact-challenged Netflix movie The Two Popes and the sin-filled HBO series The New Pope. A new documentary, out this month, tries to come to terms with the cost of Pope Pius XII's silence during World War II. The film Holy Silence, which premiered on January 21 at the Miami Jewish Film Festival...
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China's war on religion backfires in Wuhan as deadly coronavirus continues to spread...
China's respiratory virus emergency has quickly escalated into a full blown and so far uncontrolled human tragedy, with scores of people already dead and more than 100,000 people likely to have been affected. It is increasingly clear that much of the blame for the seriousness of the coronavirus's spread can be placed on the culture of lying and covering up bred by China's deeply flawed and highly corrupted Marxist-Leninist system "with Chinese characteristics...
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12 great March for Life 2020 signs (with 7 bonus Baby Yodas)...
Thousands and thousands marched on Washington today to protect the right to life of the most vulnerable, the unborn. In recent years, I have gone and taken photos of the best signs but this year that was not possible. However, people were willing to share their great March for Life signs. There were many great Baby Yoda signs but they are all near the end...
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The time I met Kobe Bryant at daily Mass: “Like all of us, he came to pray”...
News broke this afternoon that retired NBA player Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash. Bryant was also a practicing Catholic, and explained in an interview how his faith helped him through some dark times. Instagram user Cristina Ballestero revealed an amazing story about seeing Bryant at a weekday Mass at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange...
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Abortion and preaching to the choir...
Catholic parishes, dioceses, and the entire Church are pro-life. We love life, or so we say. Yet it is common for some (priests and laity) to warn priests to avoid preaching about abortion because "the people already know what the Church teaches" and "you're preaching to the choir." So in evading this hot-button issue...
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What happened in the “Dark Ages,” and why do people call them dark?
When did they occur? For most of us, the idea of darkness is opposed to light as evil to good. I sat at the piano the other night with my five-year-old son. We were both playing our own thing on different parts of the keyboard. Although I was not lucky enough to have a piano in my house as a kid, I remembered being five and loving the black keys best—I don't know why—and I asked him...
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The time I met Kobe Bryant at daily Mass: “Like all of us, he came to pray”...
News broke this afternoon that retired NBA player Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash. Bryant was also a practicing Catholic, and explained in an interview how his faith helped him through some dark times. Instagram user Cristina Ballestero revealed an amazing story about seeing Bryant at a weekday Mass at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange...
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Why study Latin?
Ave Maria, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus Dei, Dominus Vobiscum, Sanctus, Tantum Ergo. These are just some of the Latin phrases that Catholics may recognize. Although it's common to speak of Latin as a "dead" language, it remains alive within the Church, her sacred language of prayer, study, and unity. Pope Benedict XVI asked Catholics to learn the basic prayers of the Mass and the rosary to be able to pray together throughout the world...
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A meditation on a short sentence from the Gospels: “Everyone is looking for you”...
There is a brief line in the first chapter of Mark's Gospel that simply and completely sums up what we all are doing, even if we're not aware of it. The setting of the passage is the outskirts of Capernaum in the early morning. The prior day Jesus had healed a great many people at the house of Simon Peter. As the new day dawned there was already a multitude gathered in hopes of seeing this healer...
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New film 'Holy Silence' tries to get into the mind of Pope Pius XII during World War II...
Popes are in these days. Films about them are, anyway. The last few months have given us the fact-challenged Netflix movie The Two Popes and the sin-filled HBO series The New Pope. A new documentary, out this month, tries to come to terms with the cost of Pope Pius XII's silence during World War II. The film Holy Silence, which premiered on January 21 at the Miami Jewish Film Festival...
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Why study Latin?
Ave Maria, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus Dei, Dominus Vobiscum, Sanctus, Tantum Ergo. These are just some of the Latin phrases that Catholics may recognize. Although it's common to speak of Latin as a "dead" language, it remains alive within the Church, her sacred language of prayer, study, and unity. Pope Benedict XVI asked Catholics to learn the basic prayers of the Mass and the rosary to be able to pray together throughout the world...
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Abortion and preaching to the choir...
Catholic parishes, dioceses, and the entire Church are pro-life. We love life, or so we say. Yet it is common for some (priests and laity) to warn priests to avoid preaching about abortion because "the people already know what the Church teaches" and "you're preaching to the choir." So in evading this hot-button issue...
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China's war on religion backfires in Wuhan as deadly coronavirus continues to spread...
China's respiratory virus emergency has quickly escalated into a full blown and so far uncontrolled human tragedy, with scores of people already dead and more than 100,000 people likely to have been affected. It is increasingly clear that much of the blame for the seriousness of the coronavirus's spread can be placed on the culture of lying and covering up bred by China's deeply flawed and highly corrupted Marxist-Leninist system "with Chinese characteristics...
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What happened in the “Dark Ages,” and why do people call them dark?
When did they occur? For most of us, the idea of darkness is opposed to light as evil to good. I sat at the piano the other night with my five-year-old son. We were both playing our own thing on different parts of the keyboard. Although I was not lucky enough to have a piano in my house as a kid, I remembered being five and loving the black keys best—I don't know why—and I asked him...
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A meditation on a short sentence from the Gospels: “Everyone is looking for you”...
There is a brief line in the first chapter of Mark's Gospel that simply and completely sums up what we all are doing, even if we're not aware of it. The setting of the passage is the outskirts of Capernaum in the early morning. The prior day Jesus had healed a great many people at the house of Simon Peter. As the new day dawned there was already a multitude gathered in hopes of seeing this healer...
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12 great March for Life 2020 signs (with 7 bonus Baby Yodas)...
Thousands and thousands marched on Washington today to protect the right to life of the most vulnerable, the unborn. In recent years, I have gone and taken photos of the best signs but this year that was not possible. However, people were willing to share their great March for Life signs. There were many great Baby Yoda signs but they are all near the end...
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Homily for first Word of God Sunday: Why does God give us his Word?
"Jesus began to preach." With these words, the evangelist Matthew introduces the ministry of Jesus. The One who is the Word of God has come to speak with us, in his own words and by his own life. On this first Sunday of the Word of God, let us go to the roots of his preaching, to the very source of the word of life. Today's Gospel helps us to know how...
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Homily for first Word of God Sunday: Why does God give us his Word?
"Jesus began to preach." With these words, the evangelist Matthew introduces the ministry of Jesus. The One who is the Word of God has come to speak with us, in his own words and by his own life. On this first Sunday of the Word of God, let us go to the roots of his preaching, to the very source of the word of life. Today's Gospel helps us to know how...
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Third Sunday of the Year — Come and go with me to my Father's house...
In these early weeks of "ordinary" time, we are being introduced to Jesus and the beginnings of His public ministry. Matthew's Gospel today describes how Jesus began His public ministry in the wake of the arrest of John the Baptist. Matthew tells us four things about Jesus' ministry: its context, its content, its call, and its comprehensiveness...
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Third Sunday of the Year — Come and go with me to my Father's house...
In these early weeks of "ordinary" time, we are being introduced to Jesus and the beginnings of His public ministry. Matthew's Gospel today describes how Jesus began His public ministry in the wake of the arrest of John the Baptist. Matthew tells us four things about Jesus' ministry: its context, its content, its call, and its comprehensiveness...
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The ministry of angels, as seen in a commercial...
Most of us struggle with the fact that God allows bad things to happen to us. Why does He not intervene more often to protect us from attacks of various kinds and from events that cause sadness, setbacks, or suffering? While mysterious, the clearest answer is that God allows suffering in order that some greater blessing may occur...
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Francis X. Maier — Good Servant of a Good Shepherd...
In the late 1970s native New Yorker Francis X. Maier made the decision to leave Hollywood screenwriting to focus on writing a novel, The World on the Last Day, about the fall of Saigon. To support his wife and young family and supplement the advance he got from his publisher, he began working part time as an editor for the National Catholic Register...
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Father Leo Heinrichs, Denver priest shot at Mass in 1908, could be declared a saint...
When Joseph Heinrichs fled Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf in Germany, he thought he was escaping persecution. He didn't know that shortly after being ordained a Franciscan priest and taking the religious name Leo, he would be shot because of one man's hatred for the Catholic faith. Fr. Leo Heinrichs initially served at various places in New York and New Jersey...
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Prayer for the conversion of a loved one...
or various reasons, people we know and love will either walk away from the Catholic faith, or have never been given the fullness of the truth in the first place. In either case, our hearts might ache that this person has not embraced the saving power of Jesus' love and compassion. While we should do all that we can to provide an inspiring example for them to follow...
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Prayer for the conversion of a loved one...
or various reasons, people we know and love will either walk away from the Catholic faith, or have never been given the fullness of the truth in the first place. In either case, our hearts might ache that this person has not embraced the saving power of Jesus' love and compassion. While we should do all that we can to provide an inspiring example for them to follow...
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Father Leo Heinrichs, Denver priest shot at Mass in 1908, could be declared a saint...
When Joseph Heinrichs fled Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf in Germany, he thought he was escaping persecution. He didn't know that shortly after being ordained a Franciscan priest and taking the religious name Leo, he would be shot because of one man's hatred for the Catholic faith. Fr. Leo Heinrichs initially served at various places in New York and New Jersey...
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Bishop Joseph Strickland says he asked Pope Francis about McCarrick report at ad limina visit...
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, said he asked Pope Francis about the Vatican investigation into Theodore E. McCarrick and the release of a promised report on how the former cardinal managed to rise through church ranks. The bishop, who was making his ad limina visit to Rome, drew widespread attention in August 2018 for a public statement saying he found "credible" the allegations made by retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano...
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Bishop Joseph Strickland says he asked Pope Francis about McCarrick report at ad limina visit...
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, said he asked Pope Francis about the Vatican investigation into Theodore E. McCarrick and the release of a promised report on how the former cardinal managed to rise through church ranks. The bishop, who was making his ad limina visit to Rome, drew widespread attention in August 2018 for a public statement saying he found "credible" the allegations made by retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano...
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Elizabeth Wurtzel made a mess of her life, and ended up dying as she lived.....
"This is it for me," she declared in the pages of New York magazine just seven years ago. "I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous." Elizabeth Wurtzel died last week, of cancer. She was only 52. She'd come to fame at 27...
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The ministry of angels, as seen in a commercial...
Most of us struggle with the fact that God allows bad things to happen to us. Why does He not intervene more often to protect us from attacks of various kinds and from events that cause sadness, setbacks, or suffering? While mysterious, the clearest answer is that God allows suffering in order that some greater blessing may occur...
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Francis X. Maier — Good Servant of a Good Shepherd...
In the late 1970s native New Yorker Francis X. Maier made the decision to leave Hollywood screenwriting to focus on writing a novel, The World on the Last Day, about the fall of Saigon. To support his wife and young family and supplement the advance he got from his publisher, he began working part time as an editor for the National Catholic Register...
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Elizabeth Wurtzel made a mess of her life, and ended up dying as she lived.....
"This is it for me," she declared in the pages of New York magazine just seven years ago. "I am a free spirit. I do not know any other way to be. No one else seems to live as I do. In a world gone wrong, a pure heart is dangerous." Elizabeth Wurtzel died last week, of cancer. She was only 52. She'd come to fame at 27...
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What St. Francis de Sales can teach us about charisms...
Identity I argue is a very important term within the context of leading a person to Jesus Christ. Whether the intention is to introduce the concept of God, guide someone toward developing a relationship with Jesus Christ or simply introducing a genuine life in steeped in prayer, these elements are intimately united toward a central theme of introducing and guiding a person toward Jesus Christ hence identity...
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Tim Tebow marries Miss Universe: It's tabloid heaven, but there's a deeper story there...
Let's face it. A New York City tabloid is going to do what a New York City tabloid is going to do. So, if you had to make a prediction, what do you think would be in the lede of a New York Daily News report about Tim Tebow marring a woman who had been named Miss Universe? Think it through. What aspect of Tebow's life have more than a few journalists (and activists with lower motives) probed ever since That Press Conference during his playing days at the University of Florida...
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Abortion long ago became a natural symbol for the loss of a spiritual center.....
The decision reflected the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but it also shaped American culture in the decades afterward, both for those who gradually, more or less unthinkingly, accepted its premises, and for those whose increasingly articulate opposition has characterized the stance of the Church. Certainly, resistance to Roe v...
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4 things I wish I had done differently when I homeschooled...
Statistics show 91 percent of U.S. kids attend public school. But for many reasons, including academic rigor and secularism, homeschooling has been on the rise for the last decade. According to EdChoice's 2017 Schooling in America survey, while about 3 percent of U.S. students are currently homeschooled, about 7 percent of families would homeschool if they could...
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Canon law and Catholic common sense...
Asmall but intense drama unfolded last week in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. Thanks largely to the graciousness of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, the matter was resolved in the least painful way possible. Even so, it warrants a few words of reflection. The Episcopal diocese was seeking a large, convenient venue for the upcoming consecration of Rev...
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4 things I wish I had done differently when I homeschooled...
Statistics show 91 percent of U.S. kids attend public school. But for many reasons, including academic rigor and secularism, homeschooling has been on the rise for the last decade. According to EdChoice's 2017 Schooling in America survey, while about 3 percent of U.S. students are currently homeschooled, about 7 percent of families would homeschool if they could...
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What do we mean by the word “mystery?”...
In the secular world, a "mystery" is something that baffles or eludes understanding, something that lies undisclosed. And the usual attitude of the world toward mystery is to solve it, get to the bottom of, or uncover it. Mysteries must be overcome! The riddle, or "who-done-it" must be solved! In the Christian and especially the Catholic world...
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What St. Francis de Sales can teach us about charisms...
Identity I argue is a very important term within the context of leading a person to Jesus Christ. Whether the intention is to introduce the concept of God, guide someone toward developing a relationship with Jesus Christ or simply introducing a genuine life in steeped in prayer, these elements are intimately united toward a central theme of introducing and guiding a person toward Jesus Christ hence identity...
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Abortion long ago became a natural symbol for the loss of a spiritual center.....
The decision reflected the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but it also shaped American culture in the decades afterward, both for those who gradually, more or less unthinkingly, accepted its premises, and for those whose increasingly articulate opposition has characterized the stance of the Church. Certainly, resistance to Roe v...
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Tim Tebow marries Miss Universe: It's tabloid heaven, but there's a deeper story there...
Let's face it. A New York City tabloid is going to do what a New York City tabloid is going to do. So, if you had to make a prediction, what do you think would be in the lede of a New York Daily News report about Tim Tebow marring a woman who had been named Miss Universe? Think it through. What aspect of Tebow's life have more than a few journalists (and activists with lower motives) probed ever since That Press Conference during his playing days at the University of Florida...
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What do we mean by the word “mystery?”...
In the secular world, a "mystery" is something that baffles or eludes understanding, something that lies undisclosed. And the usual attitude of the world toward mystery is to solve it, get to the bottom of, or uncover it. Mysteries must be overcome! The riddle, or "who-done-it" must be solved! In the Christian and especially the Catholic world...
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A plea for Pakistan's Christians...
Many Pakistani Catholic families currently live in the Greater Philadelphia region. They are a great blessing to our community. These are very impressive people, grateful for their Pakistani heritage, whose Catholic faith was nourished in Pakistan. However, the hardships now faced by Christians in Pakistan profoundly concern them...
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Pope appoints Cleveland's Bishop Nelson Perez to succeed Archbishop Chaput in Philadelphia...
Bishop Nelson Perez of Cleveland was appointed Archbishop of Philadelphia Thursday, returning to the local Church of his priestly ordination. He succeeds Archbishop Charles Chaput, 75, who had led the Philadelphia archdiocese since 2011. Ordained a priest of the Capuchin Franciscans in 1970, Archbishop Chaput served as Bishop of Rapid City and Archbishop of Denver before his transfer to Philadelphia...
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The Lamb from the 'Ghent Altarpiece' is worrying art lovers...
There are no words to express the result" was the beaming reaction of Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, after a 15th-century masterpiece — painted over shortly after completion — was restored to its former glory. And they were right — commentators have been left speechless by one particular aspect of the newly revealed painting...
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Pope appoints Cleveland's Bishop Nelson Perez to succeed Archbishop Chaput in Philadelphia...
Bishop Nelson Perez of Cleveland was appointed Archbishop of Philadelphia Thursday, returning to the local Church of his priestly ordination. He succeeds Archbishop Charles Chaput, 75, who had led the Philadelphia archdiocese since 2011. Ordained a priest of the Capuchin Franciscans in 1970, Archbishop Chaput served as Bishop of Rapid City and Archbishop of Denver before his transfer to Philadelphia...
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A plea for Pakistan's Christians...
Many Pakistani Catholic families currently live in the Greater Philadelphia region. They are a great blessing to our community. These are very impressive people, grateful for their Pakistani heritage, whose Catholic faith was nourished in Pakistan. However, the hardships now faced by Christians in Pakistan profoundly concern them...
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The Lamb from the 'Ghent Altarpiece' is worrying art lovers...
There are no words to express the result" was the beaming reaction of Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, after a 15th-century masterpiece — painted over shortly after completion — was restored to its former glory. And they were right — commentators have been left speechless by one particular aspect of the newly revealed painting...
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New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson producing pro-life documentary...
Due to a Jan. 4 playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans, New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson won't be playing in the upcoming Super Bowl. So instead, he's wading into filmmaking by putting the final touches on a feature documentary about abortion. Watson, a pro-life Christian, is executive producing and partially financing a movie called Divided Hearts of America that he started filming in May...
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Parish in Rome opens doors to the poor, 24 hours a day...
Despite the fact that Rome has some 900 Catholic churches, finding one that is open for prayer at any given moment can be quite challenging. Some keep office hours, but most open only around Mass time. Yet as of last December, there is a church that is open 24/7, with Eucharistic adoration and a team of 8 to 10 volunteers who, together with the parish priest...
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HBO's 'The New Pope' serves up plenty of sin, but no substance...
There is often a Hollywood fascination with all that's morbid about religion. It has traditionally had a profane approach when it comes to the Catholic church. That it loves to dramatize reality into what can sometimes be an ugly trope, this is exactly what we get with HBO's new TV mini-series The New Pope. The series picks up from The Young Pope...
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A pilgrimage to the world's oldest house church — which is in Connecticut.....
My family spent Christmas back in my hometown, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of us took a pilgrimage of sorts to visit ancient and medieval art in New York City and Yale University's Art Gallery in New Haven. Connecticut may seem an odd location, but a team from Yale helped to excavate the Roman colony of Dura-Europos in Syria in the 1930s...
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This is a war we're in. Get used to it.....
During my recent bout with the flu I had the chance to re-read Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy. One of the criticisms of the books is that they are uneven, dull at times, confusing and disjointed. On re-reading I realize much of that was intentional. Waugh was showing the reality of war. I've also been reading more Church history...
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Parish in Rome opens doors to the poor, 24 hours a day...
Despite the fact that Rome has some 900 Catholic churches, finding one that is open for prayer at any given moment can be quite challenging. Some keep office hours, but most open only around Mass time. Yet as of last December, there is a church that is open 24/7, with Eucharistic adoration and a team of 8 to 10 volunteers who, together with the parish priest...
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“I did not know him” — a meditation on a saying by St. John the Baptist...
In last Sunday's Gospel St. John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, calling him superior, pre-existent, and anointed by the Holy Spirit. But what also stands out is that twice he says, "I did not know him." This seems odd given that they were cousins. While it is possible that the text merely means they were not well acquainted...
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“I did not know him” — a meditation on a saying by St. John the Baptist...
In last Sunday's Gospel St. John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, calling him superior, pre-existent, and anointed by the Holy Spirit. But what also stands out is that twice he says, "I did not know him." This seems odd given that they were cousins. While it is possible that the text merely means they were not well acquainted...
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New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson producing pro-life documentary...
Due to a Jan. 4 playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans, New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson won't be playing in the upcoming Super Bowl. So instead, he's wading into filmmaking by putting the final touches on a feature documentary about abortion. Watson, a pro-life Christian, is executive producing and partially financing a movie called Divided Hearts of America that he started filming in May...
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A pilgrimage to the world's oldest house church — which is in Connecticut.....
My family spent Christmas back in my hometown, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of us took a pilgrimage of sorts to visit ancient and medieval art in New York City and Yale University's Art Gallery in New Haven. Connecticut may seem an odd location, but a team from Yale helped to excavate the Roman colony of Dura-Europos in Syria in the 1930s...
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How Communist cruelty and Western folly built a ticking underpopulation bomb in China...
In recent days both this newspaper and The Wall Street Journal have carried reports on one of the most important geopolitical facts of the 21st century: The world's great rising power, the People's Republic of China, is headed for a demographic crisis. Like the United States and most developed countries, China has a birthrate that is well below replacement level...
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How Communist cruelty and Western folly built a ticking underpopulation bomb in China...
In recent days both this newspaper and The Wall Street Journal have carried reports on one of the most important geopolitical facts of the 21st century: The world's great rising power, the People's Republic of China, is headed for a demographic crisis. Like the United States and most developed countries, China has a birthrate that is well below replacement level...
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This is a war we're in. Get used to it.....
During my recent bout with the flu I had the chance to re-read Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy. One of the criticisms of the books is that they are uneven, dull at times, confusing and disjointed. On re-reading I realize much of that was intentional. Waugh was showing the reality of war. I've also been reading more Church history...
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HBO's 'The New Pope' serves up plenty of sin, but no substance...
There is often a Hollywood fascination with all that's morbid about religion. It has traditionally had a profane approach when it comes to the Catholic church. That it loves to dramatize reality into what can sometimes be an ugly trope, this is exactly what we get with HBO's new TV mini-series The New Pope. The series picks up from The Young Pope...
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10 years after Vatican investigation, Legion of Christ faces 'new credibility crisis'...
The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them. "As some were reading the Bible, he would rape the others in front of them, little girls aged 6 to 8 or 9," said one of his victims...
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10 years after Vatican investigation, Legion of Christ faces 'new credibility crisis'...
The administrator of the elite Catholic school in Cancun, Mexico, used to take the girls out of class and send them to the chapel, where the priest from the Legion of Christ religious order would sexually abuse them. "As some were reading the Bible, he would rape the others in front of them, little girls aged 6 to 8 or 9," said one of his victims...
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In MLK Day message, U.S. Catholic bishops say nation needs 'genuine conversion of heart'...
The example of Martin Luther King, Jr., is still sorely needed in the United States, given continued injustices, racism and discrimination against minorities, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a message for MLK Day. "As our nation prepares to commemorate the life and witness of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are grateful for his courageous stand in solidarity with all who suffer injustice and his witness of love and nonviolence in the struggle for social change...
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Dr. Martin Luther King's refutation of atheistic materialism...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we commemorate today, is best known as a civil rights leader who worked to end racial injustice, but he had other things to say as he preached each Sunday, first in his own assembly and later as he spoke around the country. Among his recorded sermons is one in which Dr. King addressed the problem of unbelief...
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How many religious flocks are ready for children with hidden disabilities?
On one level, this week's think piece is not about religion. Then again, it is a personal and transparent piece from The Seattle Times — written by GetReligion contributor Julia Duin, a veteran religion-beat professional. It's a piece about what it's like to travel with one or more children with "hidden disabilities." She is talking about PTSD...
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In MLK Day message, U.S. Catholic bishops say nation needs 'genuine conversion of heart'...
The example of Martin Luther King, Jr., is still sorely needed in the United States, given continued injustices, racism and discrimination against minorities, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a message for MLK Day. "As our nation prepares to commemorate the life and witness of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are grateful for his courageous stand in solidarity with all who suffer injustice and his witness of love and nonviolence in the struggle for social change...
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How do parents make travel easier for children with hidden disabilities?
You've seen them at the airport, at the beach or in a restaurant. A child is thrashing or kicking or on the ground while a desperate parent hovers nearby, trying to ignore angry glances from passersby. I know because I've been that anguished parent. On display are "cognitive disabilities," invisible handicaps related to how children's brains work...
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How many religious flocks are ready for children with hidden disabilities?
On one level, this week's think piece is not about religion. Then again, it is a personal and transparent piece from The Seattle Times — written by GetReligion contributor Julia Duin, a veteran religion-beat professional. It's a piece about what it's like to travel with one or more children with "hidden disabilities." She is talking about PTSD...
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Dr. Martin Luther King's refutation of atheistic materialism...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we commemorate today, is best known as a civil rights leader who worked to end racial injustice, but he had other things to say as he preached each Sunday, first in his own assembly and later as he spoke around the country. Among his recorded sermons is one in which Dr. King addressed the problem of unbelief...
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How do parents make travel easier for children with hidden disabilities?
You've seen them at the airport, at the beach or in a restaurant. A child is thrashing or kicking or on the ground while a desperate parent hovers nearby, trying to ignore angry glances from passersby. I know because I've been that anguished parent. On display are "cognitive disabilities," invisible handicaps related to how children's brains work...
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