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Let’s Celebrate Easter for a While
This year, I’m glad to see Lent come to an end, and not just because of Easter alleluias and Cadbury dark chocolate eggs. It was a tough Lent. Part of […]
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‘You Will Never Wash My Feet!’
Soon enough, we will be celebrating Holy Thursday, also known as the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The Gospel reading for that Mass is John 13:1-15, which is not […]
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How Deep Are Our Political Divisions?
The movie, musical, and now musical movie “Mean Girls” is a reminder of one of the more miserable sides of adolescence: in groups and out groups, the cool kids and […]
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How Do We Win the Abortion Battle? Maybe Like This
For abortion’s opponents, it has been a frustrating year. When it came to the courts, the pro-life movement scored its most significant victory when the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 […]
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Can the Laity Save the Church?
There’s a good chance that Russell Shaw is one of the most prolific contemporary authors and commentators on the Catholic Church that you may never have heard of. Defiantly unretired, […]
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Synod Sojourn: Listening for Simple Whispers of the Spirit
For many Catholics, Pope Francis’ decision to call for a synod on synodality is akin to the boss calling a meeting to discuss meetings – more likely to earn a […]
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Catholic Media Use on the Upswing
The good news today is that Catholics are still reading, listening, and watching Catholic materials. The better news is that the numbers who are reading, listening, and watching have been […]
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When it Comes to Homilies, we Can do Better
I suffered through another mission homily recently. Like almost all the mission and aid appeals I’ve heard over the past several years, it did not slay. This despite the fact […]
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When Our Heroes Let Us Down
My wife took Christ off our living room wall the other day. It was a postcard image of a mosaic created by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. She couldn’t bear to […]
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Ted Lasso’ and ‘Succession’: What Makes a Good Dad?
Judging from media coverage, the press has been gaga over the HBO series “Succession.” It chronicled the Roy family, a dysfunctional media brood with an oppressive, manipulative patriarch and an […]
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More Than Ever, We Need Diocesan News Media
When my wife bought a Subaru a few years ago, we not only got a car. We also received a company magazine called “Drive.” Subaru is trying to use a […]
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A Season of Change, A Time of Hope
There are a lot of joys about being a grandparent, but for starters, it lets us relive those first months and years of being a parent. We’ve got a lot […]