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Thoughts from the Synod
I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As […]
I returned just a few days ago from the second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality in Rome, and I will confess to feeling a tad exhausted. As […]
Former President Donald J. Trump, defeated after his first term in November of 2020, is once again President-elect Donald J. Trump – a feat only one other man has pulled […]
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time The First Book of Kings furnishes this weekend’s first reading from the Scriptures. Political governance, in the minds of the ancient Hebrews, was not the […]
“Who do you say that I am?” It’s the question Jesus posed to the men closest to Him, the one Peter answered with an unequivocal confession of faith in Him […]
There was a time when Katherine Louise DeGroot didn’t consider quiet suburbs or small towns. She was a city girl, thank you very much, and it suited her work as […]
“Why do men become beasts?” The question was asked by South African Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale. In a speech last August, he was warning men that they will be held […]
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Deuteronomy is the source of the first reading. One among the first five books of the Bible, Deuteronomy contains for Jews the […]
“This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.” The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s […]
Every time we profess the Apostles Creed, we say these words: “I believe in the Communion of Saints.” It’s a short little phrase that we can seemingly pass through rather […]
In October of 2024, a group known as Do No Harm released the Stop the Harm Database (STHD), a searchable internet resource that comprehensively catalogs sex change treatments performed between […]
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Jeremiah provides this weekend’s first reading. A few facts about Jeremiah are known from the book itself. He was from Anatoth, a […]
T he fellow I was talking to at the bar said he occasionally watched pornography the way you’d say you sometimes liked to watch hockey or old movies. It was […]