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In my articles ‘Losing and Finding it All’ and ‘The Day I Heard the Lord’s Voice; The Day I Knew Jesus Is Real’I talked about how I moved from being an Agnostic to a Christian. I wish I could say that I went to prison and found Christ, but that would not be the truth […]
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Gospel: John 1:43-51 When our husbands, wives or best friends speak to us, they share their inner thoughts and their inner life with us. When they share something really important and meaningful and profound, we have a choice. We may respond with faith and believe them, or we may turn away in disbelief. If we […]
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There’s a famous story told by Dr. Erwin Lutzer, former pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago, of a man who told him that when he was a young boy in Germany during the Holocaust, the Church he attended with his family was in front of railroad tracks. E…
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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday effectively shut down a federal challenge to the state’s ban on abortion after about…
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Read MoreThe most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express that same delight in God which made David…
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The Second Sunday of Lent always features the Transfiguration. On his final journey to Jerusalem, Jesus sought to prepare his…
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Art has long been a causality of war, and there is no reason to expect a gentler treatment of Ukraine’s…
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The Vatican on Saturday expressed “surprise and pain” at Nicaragua’s expulsion of the papal nuncio, which comes at a time…
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The Hebrew word for prayer, palal (pronounced: paw-lal’), does not appear until sometime later, in Genesis 20:7. The word is spoken by God in a dream to Abimelech urging him to return Abraham’s wife so that Abraham might pray for him. Abimelech does this and Abraham prays as prophesied 10 verses later. But it is […]
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Robert Royal: Psalms are disturbing and comforting. They are about you and me. About the world that desperately now needs to wake to wisdom.
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Read MoreGospel (excerpt), Lk 6:36-38:Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put…
Read MoreCardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, has repeated that the Holy See stands ready to serve a mediating role to end the war in Ukraine.
The cardinal told reporters that Russia “has taken note” of the offer, but has given …
After the Sinaloa state legislature approved a bill to allow legal abortion during the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, the Diocese of Culiacan said that lawmakers who had supported the bill will not be allowed to receive Communion.
A spokesman for the di…
The government of Egypt has increased its support for the families of 20 Coptic Christians who were beheaded by the Islamic State in 2015.
The government had given a one-time payment to the families of the victims in 2015; the aid is now supplemented…
“I desire an inclusive Church,” Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in his homily, as he celebrated Mass for a congregation celebrating “20 years of queer worship and pastoral care.”
The cardinal, who serves on Council of Cardinals adv…
The Nicaraguan government’s expulsion of the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Waldemar Sommertag, is “grave and unjustified,” the Vatican said.
The Nicaraguan government has offered no official explanation for barring the Vatican’s…
Pope Francis met on March 14 with Slovakia’s prime minister, Eduard Heger. The Vatican announced after the meeting that the discussion had included an “in-depth” appraisal of the war in Ukraine and its implications “on the regio…
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