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“Tens of thousands of Afghans and their families have arrived in the US to be resettled and are now in need of a pathway to real and lasting safety,” the USCCB said in a February 28 action alert. “Most Afghans are arriving with a type…
Read More“Today, in the suffocating climate of individualism that makes many indifferent, there is a need to start again from here, to rediscover the enthusiasm of caring for others,” Pope Francis said in an audience with members of Italy’s Na…
Read MoreIn a statement issued on February 28—the fifth day of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine—Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that “we have seen the atrocities and inhumanity of tho…
Read MoreThe Pope’s March 2022 prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “We pray for Christians facing new bioethical challenges; may they continue to defend the dignity of all human li…
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Principle and Foundation Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. (Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 23) In the […]
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“Saint Catherine closes the door of the dance hall until the three Holy Kings throw it wide open again” is a saying in Catholic countries. This means that with the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria (November 25), the Church enters the “closed time.” In these weeks, good Christians are not allowed to attend public […]
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Even as the Supreme Court may move against Roe v. Wade, the Senate is poised to vote on the misleadingly…
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Read MoreBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares…
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The visits follow a critical open letter to Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, from Archbishop Stanislaw…
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In his first direct public comments since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pope called for humanitarian corridors to be…
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At each stage of his rise to power, Vladimir Putin demonstrated an understanding of both the Russian psyche and the tactical conditions…
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Brad Miner: God willing, international and domestic pressure will escalate to an unbearable degree and force Russia from Ukraine.
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Forty days—the duration of Lent—is one of the most symbolically significant periods of time in the Bible. It’s not just the 40 days of temptation that Jesus faced in the desert. Or the years that the Israelites wandered in the desert and the days that the waters of the Genesis flood covered the earth. The […]
Today the Church in Wales and England celebrates the feast of St. David, bishop and patron of Wales. Very little is known about the life of St. David (Dewi Sant). He belonged to that great monastic movement which became influential in Wales in the sixt…
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In the first reading we are reminded to be holy as God is holy, “Be holy for I am holy.”
In the Gospel reading the Lord assures his disciples that they and others who leave family, land and possessions to follow Jesus and to preach the…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) has issued a challenge to Russian Orthodox leaders to “call on the leadership of the Russian Federation to immediately stop hostilities” against Ukraine.
The statement from the UOC…
A Vatican tribunal has rejected pretrial motions by the defense in a landmark financial-misconduct case, and ruled that the trial of ten defendants will proceed.
Defense lawyers had argued that their clients were being denied a fair process, because p…
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