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‘Make noise!’: Pope Francis at five years
By Elise Italiano and Christopher White Finishing off his first international trip as pope at the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis looked to the young […]
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The Catholic Doctor Is In
For love of life In 1991, I met a 64-year-old gentleman who had very severe coronary artery blockage. He successfully underwent quintuple […]
The Sunday Gospel
We are saved by faith in Christ Jesus
Fourth Sunday of Lent John 3:14-21 The Second Book of Chronicles provides this Lenten weekend with its first reading. Chronicles was written about 1,000 years before Jesus. The identity of […]
A more human society
Ending a culture of violence
A horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school left 17 people dead and placed school violence and gun control at the forefront of public debate. Proposals include stricter regulations […]
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Conscience and grace: a Lenten meditation
The Scriptures of Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call us to walk to Jerusalem in imitation of Christ, so that, […]
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A woman rich beyond things
International Women’s Day on March 8 recalls that many girls and women in developing countries still face huge barriers to an education, are denied rights to ownership of the land […]
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‘I sold them life’: learning from the Angel of The Gap
Little did he know what a noble purpose awaited him when Don Ritchie settled into a house on Old South Head Road back in 1964. The former Navy seaman and […]
The Sunday Gospel
Jesus is the sign of the power and wisdom of God
Third Sunday of Lent John 2:13-25 The Book of Exodus is the source of the first biblical reading this weekend. In Hebrew history, the Exodus virtually was unsurpassed as an […]
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‘Paul’ film producer: ‘Real important to tell the story of God’s mercy’
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Every story has a message within. So does every movie — and every biblically based movie as well. With the new movie “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” Eric […]
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Forming attitudes of athletes
When I was about 13, I had a bad temper — so bad that I quit playing golf. When I played poorly (which was most of the time), I would […]
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Life-giving sacrifice in Lent
I would bet that when Msgr. Robert Coll began an interdenominational drive against world hunger in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1975, he had no idea he was becoming an important part […]
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Sorting through ‘solutions’ to the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Each year, human immunodeficiency virus infects about 50,000 people in the United States and more than 2 million worldwide. Reducing the number of infections with this virus, which causes AIDS, […]