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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Baptism, Baptism of the Lord, Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Scripture Speaks |
At the Nativity, we celebrated Jesus’ birth in flesh and blood. In Sunday’s Gospel, we celebrate a second “birth”—His and ours. Why was John baptizing “with water”? It was a long-standing element in Jewish purification rituals, for obvious reasons. Water cleanses and purifies; it also sustains life. Going all the way back to the Flood, the Jews knew that […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Anniversary, Baptism, Baptism of the Lord, Between the Sundays, Featured, News, Original Sin, Prayer Life & Liturgy, Redemption, Sacraments |
“The Baptism” (detail) by Pietro Longhi [Public domain] “Why is this day so important? Clearly, it is more than just a fancy white gown and a party.” Almost every year on the upcoming feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Pope Francis encourage…
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Saint Robert Southwell, SJ, the English Jesuit priest, martyred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, was a brilliant poet whose poetry seems inspired by his insights from prayer. Saint Robert Southwell lived in a time of great persecution of Catholics in England. It was illegal for Catholics to attend Mass and they were required […]
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Christianity has been under secular attack (as opposed to Islamic attack) for more than three centuries now, ever since the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Best of Week, Featured, Holy Spirit, News, podcast, Podcasts |
Sr. Mary Ann, O.P., holds a doctorate in systematic theology from The Catholic University of America and taught theology for more than 30 years at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio. You can find her books, Drawing Close to the Holy Spirit and Heaven’s Splendor, at Sophia Institute Press. We also reccomend the following articles […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Commentary, News |
“As a pastor of souls, I cannot find words to express the hurt and anger (righteous, I pray) I experience…
The post A plea to bishops re: ‘Traditionis Custodes’ appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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Moral tastes of popular culture are just that: tastes, and thus subject to fashion and, in our social media age,…
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Read MoreWhile I was engaged in writing my work upon the Arians, great events were happening at home and abroad, which…
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Pope Francis took an apparent dig at conservatives resisting change in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, lamenting those whose…
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Pope Francis has criticized couples who choose to have pets instead of children as selfish, arguing that their decision to…
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Read MoreBorn in Barcelona, Spain, St. Raymond of Penafort was the third Superior-General of the Domincan Order. He is famous for his work in the freeing of slaves. He wrote five books of Decretals which are now a valuable part of the Canon Law of the Church. T…
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Military historians talk about the “fog of war,” the impossibility of knowing what’s going on during the confusion of battle. The idea can be extended to the struggles of daily life—that’s why we talk about […]
Read More“The search for the common good is a matter of concern to you,” Pope Francis told a group of French business executives at a January 7 private audience.
The Pope told the group that executives should be concerned about justice and charity,…
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a suit brought by a gay activist from Northern Ireland, who had sued a bakery for declining to provide a cake decorated with a message of support for same-sex marriage.
The European Court found that the…
Writing in the National Catholic Register, Msgr. Charles Pope says that “I cannot find words to express the hurt and anger (righteous, I pray) I experience over the treatment of Catholics who are attached to the older forms of the liturgy and the…
Read MoreNationwide demonstrations in Kazakhstan, originally triggered by escalating fuel prices, have spread to challenge government corruption, and the government has responded by declaring a state of emergency, imposing curfews and banning mass meetings just…
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The Greany family (from left) Lance, Tom, Kat, and Cole, who lost their Colorado home in the Marshall Fire in late 2021. / Courtesy photo
Denver, Colo., Jan 6, 2022 / 19:19 pm (CNA).
A Catholic couple who lost their home in a historic Colorado …
A same-sex wedding cake topper. / edwardolive/Shutterstock
Joliet, Ill., Jan 6, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
After a Chicago-area Catholic high school bowed to protests and hired a lacrosse coach in a same-sex marriage, the Benedictine monks who spon…
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