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Month: April 2020

Fear God. Honor the President

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In early March, several players on the World Series championship team the Washington Nationals—Ryan Zimmerman, Trea Turner, Kurt Suzuki, Patrick Corbin, and Daniel Hudson—played golf with President Trump at his private West Palm Beach resort after a morning workout at the team’s spring training facility. Unsurprisingly, the Nats players were pilloried by the President’s many […]

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St. Joseph Formed Jesus as a Man

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St. Joseph Formed Jesus as a ManAs I argue in the video and course Leaving Boyhood Behind, Jesus being lost in the Temple is the story Luke uses to mark the transition of Jesus away from his boyhood and toward his life as a man – it’s his rite of passage.  As he leaves the Temple with Mary and Joseph, we […]

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Poorest Brazilians at greatest risk during pandemic, Church workers say

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Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Brazil, on February 26, health authorities have been telling the population to increase hygiene measures and avoid crowded places. For large segments of the Brazilian working class, however, most recommendations of that kind are useless.

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Why Jesus Will Surely Act in This Time

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Why Jesus Will Surely Act in This TimeSr. Henrietta Alokha, a religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart (SSH) and the administrator of a Girls College in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, lost her life on March 15, 2020 in a ghastly fire from a gas explosion that consumed her school building. She had rushed into the […]

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Justinian’s Flea, Redux

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Francis X. Maier: No one can make us give ourselves fully and sincerely to God. But if there were ever a time to do it, the COVID-19 crisis is it.

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Let God Purify Our Hearts & Experience Fullness of Joy

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Let God purify our hearts and we will experience the fullness of joy and peace. This point was at the heart of Pope Francis’ catechesis during his General Audience, this Wednesday, April 1, 2020. As he continued his catecheses on the Beatitudes, he turned to the Sixth one, which promises that the pure of heart will see God. “To see God,” Francis stressed, “means having a personal relationship with him.”

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Joyful Brevity of the Rosary

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One of my students – a Protestant, like most of my students – told me that she just doesn’t understand Catholic worship and prayer practices. “Like at Mass, when you repeat the same things over and over again,” she remarked. “And like those ladies with the beads who say the same prayers a hundred times. It just […]

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The Joyful Brevity of the Rosary

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One of my students — a Protestant, like most of my students – told me that she just doesn’t understand Catholic worship and prayer practices. “Like at Mass, when you repeat the same things over and over again,” she remarked. “And like those ladies with the beads who say the same prayers a hundred times. It just […]

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Apr. 1 Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent, Weekday

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“One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, …

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