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Month: September 2021

Are We Still God’s Prophetic People?

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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I Love Old Things

Brad Miner on New York’s The Cloisters museum, an overwhelmingly Catholic experience evoking a key aspect of Catholicism: beauty.

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Origins of the Holy Rosary

Origins of the Holy RosaryThe 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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Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time

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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St. Wenceslaus

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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