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In 2019 I was being deployed to Bellevue. Significant portions of Nebraska and Iowa were underwater following a devastating storm, and I was to head up Operations. As I’ve done in anticipation of other disaster response deployments, I looked for […]
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Read MorePope Francis at World Youth Day in Poland, July 2016. / Marcin Kadziolka/Shutterstock.
Vatican City, Aug 2, 2021 / 08:10 am (CNA).
In a message to the Medjugorje Youth Festival on Monday, Pope Francis told young Catholics that Christ’s loving ga…
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new Gallup poll on black Americans: A recent Gallup poll disclosed that 81% of blacks want either more time spent by police in their neighborhood, or about the same amount of time; only 19% want less…
Read MoreNo matter how good we have it, no matter how wealthy we are, or how many good friends we have, or even how holy we are, all of us will experience sorrow in this life. A couple of years into my marriage when my wife, newborn child, and I were living in Ireland, I experienced a great deal of sorrow. I was never diagnosed as having depression, but the symptoms were similar to what other depressed people experience.
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On Monday 2 August 2021 the universal Church celebrates what is called The Pardon of Assisi. This great feast, which ranks as a solemnity within the Franciscan festivities, is another great sign of the immense good the Lord himself performs to his Church and the world through the Franciscan movement. But what the Pardon of Assisi is[…]
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When I was a kid, growing up on a farm in northern Iowa, we had a plump, white and shades of brown English shepherd dog named “Pup” — later called “Old Pup” when she started getting on in years. She was a gentle and helpful beloved family pet who herde…
Read MoreTo lure parents who want their kids to be competitive in a high-tech society, some Catholic schools promote themselves vigorously as providing a top-notch STEM education. But just how compatible is the STEM mentality with Catholic ideas about formation…
Read MoreViolent protests and destruction of property can never be a just response to the current economic hardships and economic injustice, they said
Read MoreAccording to the report, the event followed a decision by the archdiocese’s superintendent of schools to make masks “mandatory for elementary school students and staff indoors in large group settings, and when individuals are within three f…
Read MoreThe Bloodvein First Nation in Manitoba has banned Father Rhéal Forest from its territory. Archbishop Albert LeGatt of Saint Boniface also barred the priest from preaching after the priest, in a homily, accused residential school survivors of lyi…
Read MoreA former Mormon filed suit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, alleging that several of the church’s teachings involve misrepresentations; she also filed a RICO suit against the church, alleging misrepresentations in fundrais…
Read MoreIslam is the official religion of the South Asian nation of 234 million (map), the fifth most populous in the world. Though 96% of Pakistanis are Muslim, 60%-70% of Pakistan’s nurses are Christian, according to Aid to the Church in Need.
Read MoreThe contest is between those who believe in moral absolutes that are universally binding and those who believe that others are entitled to see things differently
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In the first-ever papal sermon, St. Peter ended his exhortation by urging his Jewish audience to “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). It was the first of countless invitations […]
During the reign of St. Vladimir the Great, the people of Kievan Rus’ (map) were baptized in 988. In Kiev, an estimated 350,000 Orthodox faithful took part in a procession led by bishops of the the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)…
Read MoreThe nation of 10.6 million (map) is 62% Christian (and 42% Catholic), 31% ethnic religionist, and 6% Muslim, and gained independence from largely Muslim Sudan in 2011.The South Sudanese Civil War began in 2013 and officially ended in February 2020. In…
Read MoreThe South Asian nation of 163 million (map) is 89% Muslim and 9% Hindu.“Radical Buddhists warned us to completely destroy the church, but we will not, even if we have to sacrifice our lives,” said the assistant pastor of the Bangladesh Trib…
Read MorePresident Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home on July 7.“I worked in the past with poor communities in Brazil, but nothing compares to the Haitian reality,” said Sister Ideneide Rêgo. “It’s an indescribable misery….
Read More“There is a risk of a massacre, the situation is disastrous and hunger is rampant in a frightening way,” said Archbishop Ludwig Schick, president of the German bishops’ Commission for the Universal Church. “Babies and children a…
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