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Aggie Klansman: Why are you burning that cross on your front lawn?Aggie Affirmative Action Officer: Because it wouldn't fit in the sun porch. Texas A&M...
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2018 was a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church, and frankly, most of the news was bad news. With prayers for more positive headlines in 2019, here are my...
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Discourse IX Of The Dolours Of Mary Meditation on the Seven Sorrows of Mary which are: St. Simeon's Prophesy, the Flight of Jesus to Egypt, the Loss of Jesus...
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One thing I have come to realize over the past few years, especially during the reign of Pope Francis, is that in a culture hostile to religious orthodoxy, it...
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The Holy Spirit And Mary Dwight Campbell explains St. Maximillian Kolbe's Marian theology, reflecting especially on the relationship between the Holy Spirit...
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Paths to Rome: Washing of Feet on Holy Thursday Fr. Pokorsky contends in this article that the washing of feet on Holy Thursday is restricted to men according...
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Today CWN passes along the report that Pope Benedict suffers from a degenerative joint condition in his legs. Although I am sorry for his suffering, I must say...
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Suddenly you realize that what is presented in fun is only a short step removed from something very, very dark.
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POSTULATE A principle or fact that is assumed to be true and that is a basis for action or argumentation. In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, it is one of the...
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Advent is a time of anticipation, looking forward to the birth of Jesus on Christmas. Of course the anticipation is a liturgical fiction. Jesus was born into...
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SATURDAY Named after the Roman god Saturn, the seventh day of the week consecrated by the Church for devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Since patristic times,...
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How do you respond to a crime wave?That's easy; disband the police force. Bothered by mice in your home? Don't worry; just leave plenty of cookie crumbs on the...
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The bishops of Massachusetts plan to petition the state government for exemption from a policy that bars adoption services from discriminating against...
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With Tuesday's electoral contests out of the way, politicians in Washington are now free to focus exclusively on the health-care reform proposal. The big vote...
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The Boston Globe, whose investigative reporters copped a Pulitzer Prize for their aggressive treatment of priests who molested young people, offered a...
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Artistic Creation Opens Human Minds to the Transcendent The Holy Father's April 23, 1999 Address at the opening of the exhibition
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The liturgical texts express wholehearted confidence in the imminent coming of the Redeemer. There is much joyous expectation. Most families have their own...
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In the year 1521 a cannon ball fractured the left leg of Captain Ignatius Loyola, the future founder of the Jesuits. While he was convalescing, Ignatius read...
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There is a crisis in the Catholic Church right now, but that does not mean good Catholics can use any means whatsoever to resolve it.
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I'm not sure how this article rated inclusion in the front page section of today's New York Times, unless they're doing some sort of liturgical calendar...
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And a great storm of wind arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and...
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What Cardinal Arinze said at Georgetown is simply what the Catholic Church teaches. Moreover, everybody knows that's what the Church teaches. Yet the moral...
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PARSIMONY, LAW OF The principle of economy of thought or effort in using means to a given end. As stated by William of Occam, called
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There's an interesting controversy in play in Germany with Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne crticizing Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz, the president of the...
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Christ Made Himself Poor for You (Message for Lent 2008) In Pope Benedict XVI's Lenten Message for 2008 he reflects on the importance of almsgiving. Using the...
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Well he did, didn't he? And somehow I just missed the headline? In order to be received into the Catholic Church, one must make a profession of faith,...
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Our inability to identify the predominant temperament of Jesus suggests a perfect balance of His human personality.
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GLADNESS A result of interior happiness, shown in one's external disposition and even facial expression. Cheerfulness as the emotional counterpart to a...
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The two stories for the past week, for American Catholic readers, were the opening of The Passion and the sex-abuse report by the National Review Board. In a...
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St. Joseph, Father in Tenderness Continuing his catechetical series on Saint Joseph, Pope Francis looks at his role as a loving father and a reflection of...
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VENERABLE Title given to the Servants of God after the state of their herioc virtue or martyrdom has been proved and a solemn decree to that effect has been...
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Dom links a threnody from the Rainbow Sash Movement bewailing their having been denied communion at the Bishops' Meeting: Homophobia promotes blindness....
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EXEMPLARISM The erroneous theory of the Atonement which holds that Christ's passion and death are salutary only be reason of the example that the Savior gave...
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Search or browse the Catechism of the Catholic Church. An excellent tool for learning more about the Faith and for research.
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Historically today is the feast of St. Juliana, a Christian virgin of Cumae, Italy, martyred for the faith when she refused to marry a Roman prefect. She...
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You say you want American bishops to denounce John Kerry? To say that Kerry is at odds with the Church on crucial public issues? That's easy. Spread a rumor...
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SACRAMENTAL PRESENCE The manner of presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. He is really, truly, and substantially
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The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized In October of 2004, Pope John Paul II assigned to the International Theological Commission the...
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Let's take a look at how Cardinal Mahony's Stonewall Doctrine has "evolved" in the past couple months. First, an AP story from last November: Lawyers for the...
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For more than a decade, some journalists have been trying to trace the responsibility for the sex-abuse crisis to the Vatican, and preferably to the Pope. They...
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Bl. Claude La Colombiere: A Priest after Christ's Heart The faith of St. Claude La Colombiere was instrumental in helping St. Margaret Mary spread the devotion...
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Novo Millennio Ineunte At noon on Saturday the Pope signed his apostolic letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte, closing the Jubilee year. In four chapters, with 59...
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The Priest Martyrs of England This 1971 article by then-Reverend, Archbishop Donald Wuerl tells of the brutal treatment and martyrdom of forty priests during...
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Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord. This brings to an end the season of Christmas. The Church recalls Our Lord's second...
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The Cry of Children In this letter, dated December 28, 2016, to the world's bishops on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs, Pope Francis has said the...
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HOLINESS, SUBJECTIVE The inherent sanctity of a person, as distinct from his or her position in the Church as one specially consecrated to God.
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10. A Mother's Blessing Chapter Ten of Cardinal Mindszenty's book, The Mother.
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Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know... (A Review) Diane Mozcar's book, Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know: The Divine Surprises and Chastisements that...
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Annum Sacrum (On Consecration To The Sacred Heart) Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII Annum Sacrum (On Consecration To The Sacred Heart) promulgated on May 25, 1899.
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Just a couple of days ago I pointed out that the Ignatius Press site listed Caritatis Veritate, the 3rd encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, as "available...
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