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Month: January 2020

Vice President Pence meets Pope Francis (CNA)

US Vice President Mike Pence met on January 24 with Pope Francis, and told reporters after the meeting that they had discussed the March for Life, which took place in Washington the same day. Pence said that he had also spoken with the Pontiff about th…

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The Spiritual Life is Still Possible After Motherhood

The Spiritual Life is Still Possible After MotherhoodTo be like Christ is to grow in love, and other than the marital embrace, there is no human love like a mother’s love for her child. She gives of herself over and over again, without asking anything in return. So that yes to God in caring for your children imitates Mary in her yes to God in caring for Jesus.

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God Has a Marvelous Plan For All of Us

God Has a Marvelous Plan For All of UsFlick on the television, turn to the news, and notice how hopeless it all looks. Terrorists kill hundreds and intimidate millions. Governments push their authority as we seem to move towards war. Things did not appear much better in first century Galilee.  The king was an irreligious adulterer and a lackey of the hated Romans.  […]

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Winter and the Spiritual Life

“We can have confidence that God is still working—even in the coldness, even in the darkness, even when all seems quiet.” For much of the Northern Hemisphere, January is that month when the weather finally makes up its mind to turn cold, the nigh…

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Do We Promptly Respond to Christ’s Call?

Do We Promptly Respond to Christ's Call?“When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew to Galilee.”  Danger drove Jesus into a land that historically had known great danger and grave sorrow.  Why? Gospel (Read Mt 4:12-23) St. Matthew tells us that when John the Baptist fell into Herod’s hands, Jesus decided to leave Jerusalem. Surely He read the signs of the […]

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Life, by the Numbers

Robert Royal: Today’s march in Washington redoubles efforts to defend the millions who die under the murderous, unrecognized abortion ideology.

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