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Month: April 2022

The Unique Crosses of Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Motherhood

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I was in the thick of planning three baby showers for close friends of mine when I broke down. I fell to my knees in an empty sanctuary following a marriage workshop, and sobbed. It occurred to me that I’d never given consideration to the potential hardship of a couple’s fertility journey. I never thought […]

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The Cross and Justice

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St. Thomas Aquinas said of justice, “If anyone would reduce it to the proper form of a definition, he might say that ‘justice is a habit whereby a man renders to each one his due by a constant and perpetual will’” (Summa Theologiae II-II, 58, 1). This is good as far as it goes by way […]

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Thursday of the Second Week of Easter

Posted by | Apr 28, 2022 | |

Reading I Acts 5:27-33

When the court officers had brought the Apostles in
and made them stand before the Sanhedrin,
the high priest questioned them,
“We gave you strict orders did we not,
to stop teaching in that name.
Yet you have …

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Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’ faces backlash, comparisons to Inquisition

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Lawyer Luigi Panella offered a provocative comparison to the Inquisition in the Middle Ages, when one inquisitor, Dominican Father Nicolas Eymerich, complained that the main obstacle to the rapid conclusion of a case was “the presence of a defense.”

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