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A Pope for Our Time
Throughout the course of my lifetime, the Catholic Church has had six popes – St. Paul VI, John Paul I, St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo […]
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A Pope for Our Time
Throughout the course of my lifetime, the Catholic Church has had six popes – St. Paul VI, John Paul I, St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV. Paul […]
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The Simple Mission of Pope Francis: Inviting All to Encounter Christ
In a casual aside in an article two or three years into Pope Francis’ pontificate, and a year or two before I came to Our Sunday Visitor, I wrote that […]
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All That I Am
(OSV News) – The idea of union with God is, for most people, alternately attractive and terrifying. Attractive, because no matter how far we have fallen through the sin of […]
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The Meaning of Lent
(OSV News) – Every Lent for more than 45 years, I have given up watching TV and have chosen a spiritual classic to read and meditate on instead. Through the […]
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Take Up Your Cross
(OSV News) – For some years now, it has been fashionable for Catholics to declare that we’re not giving up anything for Lent but instead are doing something positive. This […]
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Look to the Skies
(OSV News) – One evening, after dinner at a conference in California, their stomachs filled with good food and better wine, a group of mathematicians and physicists went for a […]
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A New Perspective
Like most Catholics, my family and I have a particular pew (or at least a section of pews) that we normally sit in. During the Christmas season, however, for daily […]
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Breathing Life Back into the World
“We … see all round us every day the living turning into the lifeless. What we never see is the lifeless turning into the living.” – Owen Barfield When I […]
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Our Common Home
We live in an old house, my family and I. Its beauty and craftsmanship are a marvel to behold. Sometimes in the morning, as I sit in an armchair in […]
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In My End Is My Beginning
“There is significance in the end of things,” my son Jacob once said, long before young men should think such thoughts, much less have the courage to utter them aloud. […]
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Proclaim the Good News in This Election Cycle
When I mention to fellow Catholics that I will not be voting on Tuesday, November 5, for either the Republican or the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, […]