New head of California Catholic Conference sees battles over Church healthcare
Kathleen Domingo is Executive Director of the California Catholic Conference, the first woman to hold this position.
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Kathleen Domingo is Executive Director of the California Catholic Conference, the first woman to hold this position.
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A Catholic chaplain will be allowed to take up his position at the University of Nottingham, after the school reversed a decision to block his appointment based on his tweets on abortion.
Read MoreThe theme of the Pope’s message for the 2021 World Youth Day is “Stand up. I appoint you as a witness of what you have seen.” (cf. Acts 26:16).“The verse that has inspired the theme of the 2021 World Youth Day is taken from the …
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A while ago a friend wrote to me asking about kissing statues. Here is my short response. He wrote, “Hi Steve! I know you are a busy man. Please answer the above issue when the time permits you. I am a Catholic but I cannot accept the kissing of statues. It goes against my conscience. […]
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Read MoreBetween the Books of Nehemiah and Judith, we find the endearing, heart-warming, uplifting and inspiring Book of Tobit. Composed of only fourteen short chapters, the story runs smoothly and quickly with simple but profound messages for the whole world and at all times. The Word of God is like a two-edged sword that pierces bone […]
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News item #2: Bishop Tomé Ferreira da Silva of the diocese of São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, resigned as bishop a few days after sexually explicit videos of him surfaced on the internet. News item #3 has to do deal with doctrine. Monsignor Philippe Bordeyne, the new president of the former John Paul II Institute […]
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Brad Miner on New York’s The Cloisters museum, an overwhelmingly Catholic experience evoking a key aspect of Catholicism: beauty.
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Read MoreThe rosary is one of the most cherished prayers of our Catholic Church. Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, “The rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge […]
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The second annual March for the Martyrs took place Saturday in Washington, D.C., featuring testimony from advocates for persecuted Christians…
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Read MoreThe Christian understanding of the Incarnation pervades Christian art, far more in the early centuries than in the modern era….
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The elevation of personal autonomy forces us to relegate questions of how we ought to live, questions that affect us…
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The pope added that both abortion and euthanasia “deny hope” by negating “the hope of children who bring us the…
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Christ tells us that if we are to join him, we shall travel the way he took. It is surely not right that the Son of God should go his way on the path of shame while the sons of men walk the way of worldly honor. — St. John of Ávila
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From even a purely critical, objective and historical standpoint, the miracles of Jesus should be undisputed. The problem surfaces for…
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“Sacred doctrine is essential for the spiritual life because it makes it possible to gaze on Christ Himself.”
-Dr. Anthony Lilles, Fire from Above: Christian Contemplation and Mystical Wisdom
Read MoreSt. Wenceslaus was Duke of Bohemia, who after many trials in governing and evangelizing his people, suffered martyrdom at the hands of his brother in the year 929.
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In the first reading the prophet says that “many great peoples and powerful nations will come seeking Yahweh, God of hosts, in Jerusalem and pray to him.” They will come because they have “heard that God is with you.” Before Jesus returned to heaven in his Ascension, he commissioned his disciples to “go and make […]
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Known in song and folklore as the good king, St. Wenceslaus is the patron saint of the Czech Republic. He was born very early in the tenth century near the city of Prague, the son of the Duke of Bohemia. Wenceslaus was raised by his grandmother, St. Ludmilla — who tried to promote him as […]
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