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Understanding Bishop Robert Barron

In the Catholic media bubble, Bishop Robert Barron is more often defined by what he is not than what he…

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Artificial sugar vs. the sweetness of reality

Americans are addicted to sugar. And unsurprisingly — it’s added to nearly every normal, everyday processed food or drink you’ll come across at Cub Foods or Aldi, from marinara sauce to granola. As a result, the average American consumes nearly three times more sugar per day than what’s recommended.

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Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty

People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…

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Building a Culture of Hope and Beauty

People often ask: What can we do, given all the problems that exist in the Church and the world? Most…

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Ever Ancient, Ever New

Robert Royal: Getting to a better balance between new and old in the Church is going to be an arduous process after decades of division.

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The Contemplative Life: Joy in Parentheses

The next to last chapter of Thomas Merton’s Seeds of Contemplation (1949) is entitled Contemplata aliis Tradere — roughly translated, “To teach others contemplation.” It’s one of the mottos of the Dominican Order, and it’s drawn from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa. “That form of active life in which a man, by preaching and teaching, delivers to others the fruits of his contemplation,” writes St. Thomas, “is more […]

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