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The Prophetic Witness for Life and Human Dignity

“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) In our first reading today on this Respect Life Sunday, the prophet Habakkuk asks how long must injustice p…

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When Will the Assault on Children in the Womb End?

Image: “Madonna and Child” (detail) by Sassoferrato | Restored Traditions An oppressive darkness settled upon the United States of America. Forty-nine years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States “legalized” a…

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Dignity and Distance

Joseph R. Wood: Whether the view of human dignity is philosophical or poetic, we must see others as God sees us: at a distance, and up close.

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The Prophetic Witness of the Catholic CHurch

“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) We live in an age that is filled with signs and wonders, many of which are ominous and terrifying—our polit…

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In life and in death, O Lord, abide with me

“Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent” (Luke 24:29). Just yesterday we remembered the victims of September 11, 2001 in our prayers as we marked the twentieth anniversary of that tragic day. That is a day that I pray we ne…

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Pope Pius XII and the Assumption

  “The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed extraordinary attacks on the truth that underlies this dogma…” Pope Pius XII declared in 1950, “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course o…

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