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Month: January 2020

Do Catholics Read the Bible?

By Andrew Willard Jones and Louis St. Hilaire  Dr. Andrew Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University and is an expert on the Church of the High Middle Ages. He is the author of Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX and the

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Sunday Gospel reflections: United in mind and purpose

I urge you, brothers and sisters … that all of you agree in what you say … that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose. (1 Corinthians 1:10) For the approximately past 15 years I have periodically attended one week of the su…

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Archbishop Chaput says successor is ‘exactly the man our church needs’

Proclaiming his successor as “exactly the man our church needs,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput introduced Bishop Nelson J. Perez, whom Pope Francis named as the next archbishop of Philadelphia, at a Jan. 23 news conference in Philadelphia.

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Saint Francis de Sales and the Joy of Salvation

It would be ironic if on this feast of the patron saint of writers that I did not write a few words on Francis de Sales, who expressed, at the height of the divisions and schisms caused by the Protestant ‘reformation’, the right way to do ecumenism:  With a gentle and charitable soul, firmly grounded[…]

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How do YOU Read the Bible?

A Little Poem about Reading/Studing the Bible in Context I supposed I knew my Bible, Reading piecemeal, hit or miss, Now a bit of John or Matthew, Now a snatch of Genesis, Certain chapters of Isaiah, Certain Psalms (the twenty-third), Twelfth of Romans, first of Proverbs — Yes, I thought I knew the Word! But […]

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