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Month: May 2020

A Divine Darkness

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A Divine DarknessThis Present Paradise: A Series of Reflections on St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (Start with part 1 here.) The visiting American priest bowed his head in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at the Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.  Suddenly, there was a gentle rustling at his side, and a sister pressed a note […]

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Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter

Posted by | May 29, 2020 | |

Reading 1 Acts 25:13b-21

King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea
on a visit to Festus.
Since they spent several days there,
Festus referred Paul’s case to the king, saying,
“There is a man here left in custody by Felix.
When I was in Jerusalem …

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Australian archbishop praises decision to raise limit on numbers at Mass

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Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has praised the government of the Australian state of New South Wales for putting churches on equal terms with pubs and restaurants, and allowing religious services involving up to 50 people beginning June 1.

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Islam’s Trojan Horse

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“Active shooter at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi.” That was the breaking news story on Thursday morning. It turned out that the shooter was no longer active, having been “neutralized” after wounding a member of the base security force. As it happens, I was in the middle of writing a piece—the article you are […]

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The Decline and Fall of Edward Gibbon

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In 1752, a fifteen-year-old Edward Gibbon entered the halls of Magdalen College, Oxford, where his father had enrolled him as a gentleman commoner. The aspect of his new academic mother did not inspire the young scholar with immediate reverence, nor would the passage of many years cause him to look back on his brief term […]

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