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Month: June 2021

A Crisis of Friendship

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Sociologists at the University of Arizona and Duke University conducted a longitudinal study on social isolation from 1985 to 2005. In 1985 they found that most Americans could name three people they considered very close friends and confidants. By 2005, however, one in four Americans reported having no close friends—no one in whom they could discuss their thoughts or struggles. The number of the self-identified friendless had doubled in twenty years. 

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Humble As Dirt

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Humble As DirtThe word humility comes from the word humus, which means earth, or in particular the under-earth. The dark soft spongy earth without any plant decay still in it. Our word humility can make us think of the words at Ash Wednesday, “You are dust and to dust you shall return.” It is said that humility is the first […]

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Pope says pandemic a ‘lesson in humility’; warns against doing ‘what we did before’

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Pope Francis welcomed a delegation from  Ecumenical Patriarchate Bartholomew I of Constantinople on Monday, urging Orthodox and Catholic faithful to not “squander” the “dramatic crisis” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Saint Irenaeus’ Witness to Tradition

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Saint Irenaeus (+202 A.D.), bishop of Lugdunum – now Lyons – in the second century of the Church’s existence, a disciple of the martyr Saint Polycarp, who was in turn a disciple of Saint John the Apostle, is himself not only one of the clearest links to apostolic Tradition, but his writings and thoughts form[…]

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The Political Path for Conservative Catholics

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forkThe Massive Secular State (MSS) looms like a forbidding shadow over the future of the Catholic Church. This form of government is aggressively secular, and aggressively growing. It is also anti-Catholic—designed, whether explicitly or implicitly, to work against the desires of the Church. And although the Church has long battled various governments, the MSS is […]

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