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Month: April 2021

Archbishop Hebda asks all priests to join him at April 19 Mass for peace and justice

Asking all priests as well as the faithful of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to join him, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said he will celebrate a Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice April 19 as the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin concludes and tension continues surrounding the death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center.

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Saint Kateri, Canada’s Protectress

This was the title given to Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, by Pope Benedict XVI, when he canonized her on October 28th, 2012, along with six others, in Saint Peter’ Square (she had been beatified by Pope John Paul II back in 1980). With Saint Joseph as our protector, along with the Canadian martyrs, we seem to[…]

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Three Dissenters: Kung, O’Toole, Trudeau

On April 6th, at the age of 93, Father Hans Kung went to meet his God, along with the Christ he didn’t seem to believe was God – he’s in for a surprise on that one, along with a few others.  Kung was a contemporary, and sometime friend and colleague, of Father Josef Ratzinger (who[…]

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The Life of Nuns in Books

NunsThe topic of “discerning a vocation” is a commonplace yet difficult one with young Catholics. In order to make a generous choice of a state in life (usually, in the Roman Rite, between marriage and consecrated religious life and/or priesthood), young men and women in the Church must listen to and grapple with every aspect […]

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Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

Reading I Acts 6:1-7

As the number of disciples continued to grow,
the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews
because their widows 
were being neglected in the daily distribution.
So the Twelve called together the community of the …

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Three-time Olympian shares her conversion story

Dominique Dawes. / Credit: Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy.

Denver Newsroom, Apr 17, 2021 / 02:00 am (CNA).
Three-time Olympian Dominique Dawes talks about her conversion to the Catholic faith, and how God has been at work in her life and in…

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Halo for Italy’s martyred PM, friend of Paul VI seems on hold

Though it’s not the foundation of his beatification cause, there’s a heart-breaking papal footnote to Prime Minister Aldo Moro’s kidnapping. He was a lifelong friend of Pope Paul VI, and during those agonizing 55 days, the aging pontiff tried to move heaven and earth to secure his friend’s release.

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The American Church: Going, Going . . .

Russell Shaw: Mass attendance is one area of Catholic decline. Another is that 2/5 of “cradle Catholics” no longer identify with the Church.

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