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Month: December 2021

Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

Taking seven loaves of bread and a few fish, Jesus fed the crowds. Clearly, there was no limit to Jesus’ generosity that day. But is this the end of the story? Do we look back with nostalgia to the “good old days” when prophets spoke and miracles occurred? Do we wonder whether we could ever […]

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Love of Country: The Unsung Virtue

“For us, after God, the greatest love is Poland”  – Bl. Stefan Wyszyński In the sixteenth century St. John of the Cross said: “The Lord has always revealed the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit to mortals, but now that evil is showing its face more, God reveals them to us still more fully.”[…]

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The Commemoration of All Saints of the Seraphic order

The 29th of November is the liturgical memorial of Franciscan saints. Countless is the number of those who followed Jesus in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi by living the gospel in poverty and fraternity. This feast is one of great joy and hope, as a panoply of worldly unknowns convey to us the[…]

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The complicated story of Catholicism, religious tolerance, and early America

For the Catholic Church, America has never been just a nation or a state. It constitutes rather a political and theological problem. That is as much the case now as it has ever been. The […]

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Bishop Cozzens’ pro-life story started before birth

Bishop Andrew Cozzens has told his birth story many times — how his mother, Judy, when pregnant with him, was advised by her physician to get an abortion. Nancy Schulte Palacheck recently recalled that Judy told her doctor that God sends us whatever we can handle, that this was her baby and she was going to have the baby.

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One prayer group, 10 vocations: the remarkable story of Bishop Cozzens’ college friends

At a small Catholic college in a small Midwestern town, a small group of students gathered Monday nights for a prayer group that would have a big impact. At the center of the group was a scrawny young man strumming guitar, a student who radiated equal parts levity and piety and would one day be appointed bishop of the Diocese of Crookston.

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#10389 Open Forum – Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

Questions Covered:

04:40 – When Peter mentions “other scriptures” in 2 Peter 3:16, does that imply that there was a set canon at that time?
10:50 – I’m gathering with my adult children over Christmas, and they’re all at various stages of l…

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