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Each of Us Is Invited to Follow Jesus; Will We Accept His Call?
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Wisdom provides the first reading. This book came to be many centuries ago as devout Jews, distant from their homeland and from […]
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Sacred Scribbles: Piece by Piece, Page by Page
Opal Whiteley was 6 years old when she began keeping a diary, scrawling with a crayon in tightly spaced, phonetically spelled words. She recorded her wanderings and wonderings in the […]
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The Challenges of the Catholic Voter
Every four years, for as long as I’ve been in the Catholic press, editors get two types of phone calls come election time. The first is to complain about the […]
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After One Year of Suffering in the Middle East, Here’s How to Help
Monday, October 7, marked the grim one-year anniversary of the latest war in the Middle East, the date when the Hamas Palestinian terrorist organization attacked Israel out of the blue, […]
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All Men and Women Possess Dignity Given by God
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Genesis is the source of the first reading for this weekend. Among the first five books of the Bible, Genesis reveals important […]
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St. Théodore Guérin: A Model of Fidelity
What do we do when faced with those challenges and difficulties that can define us? We should pray to have at least a small share in the fidelity of St. […]
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Both Sides Exploit Immigrants Like Things; Catholics Cannot
In January of 1948, a plane crashed in central California’s Los Gatos Canyon, killing 28 migrant farm workers and four flight crew members. Newspaper accounts provided the names of the […]
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As I Leave for Second Session of the Synod
As I compose these words, I am preparing to depart for Rome for the second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality. As I shared with you a year […]
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Finding Victory in the Rosary
Let’s be honest: prayer can be hard! In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part. […]
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Only Our Nearness to God Will Help Us Find Rest with Him
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Numbers, the source of the first reading for this weekend, is one of the first five books of the Bible. The ancient […]
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The Height of God’s Power is Shown Best in His Mercy
This Sunday’s collect prayer happened to strike me as I was looking through the Roman Missal to explore the prayers for Mass. For the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we […]
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We Cannot Follow Jesus and Sidestep the Cross
The crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth was a historical event occurring in a particular time and place. But the cross casts a long shadow, one that stretches across all of […]