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Month: August 2020

Latin Americans press fight against clerical sexual abuse

Some 2,000 people joined a video conference on preventing sexual abuse in the Church in Latin America organized by the Center for Child Protection of Mexico’s Catholic University (CEPROME) and the Vatican Safeguarding Taskforce.

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Aid to the Church in Need offers COVID relief to Congo’s nuns, priests

For over 20 years, eastern Congo been beset by war and conflict, with rival gangs fighting for control over the region’s rich mineral resources. While other aid organizations and NGOs have fled the area as a result of rising insecurity, religious sisters have remained.

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7 Unexpected Ways the Old Testament Prefigures Mary

As Catholics, we are familiar with how Mary is the New Eve — as well as the many ways that the other women of ancient Israel look forward to the Mother of God. But Mary is also prefigured in some unexpected parts of the Old Testament. Here are seven of them. Noah’s ark. We tend […]

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Why Are Priests Called Father?

Why Are Priests Called Father?Q: A Baptist friend asked me, “Why do we call priests ‘Father’ when Jesus told us not to call anyone on earth ‘father?’” How would you answer this question? This question refers to Jesus’s teaching found in the Gospel of St. Matthew, when He said, “Do not call anyone on earth your father. Only One […]

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Things Always Fall Apart

Brad Miner: W.B. Yeats’ conservatism glorifiied the past but ephemeral and haughty, especially in his flirtation with fascism and eugenics.

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St. Lydia of Thyatira

Saint Lydia was born in Thyatira, a town famous for its dye works. She was a seller of purple dye and was St. Paul’s first convert at Philippi. The following is from the Acts of the Apostles: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped […]

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