By Fr. Donald J. Rooney

Martin Luther King was a light that suddenly appeared in the darkness of centuries of human trafficking, persecution, slavery and civil war, but his light was different  He chose to follow from the Gospels of Jesus Christ the challenge to see Christ in every person who is in need, even the enemy who needs to be freed from evil. Peacemaking is more than simply the process of arbitration; its goal is friendship. 

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By Russell Shaw

Two Supreme Court cases raise the same free speech question: How far can the state legitimately go in forcing individuals and groups to communicate messages that support things they reject in conscience?

4/3/18
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By Wyatt Noble

The Villanova men's basketball team claimed its second national championship in three years April 2 with a 79-62 win over Michigan, and I was an ocean away from 99 percent of my fellow Wildcats.

 

4/3/18
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By Jesus’ humble, loving surrender of His life to the Father while hanging on a tree and by His glorious springing to life three days later, Our Lord conquered mankind’s greatest enemies: sin, Satan and death. Jesus crushed the competition. It was a monstrous defeat. It was a glorious victory.

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By Fr. Patrick Kelly
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Father Rob Hagan have been getting a lot of attention these days in the national media. 
3/29/18
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By Sr. Constance Veit, Lsp
I grew up Catholic without ever hearing about the Divine Mercy devotion, which the church celebrates annually on the Sunday after Easter. 
3/28/18
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By Elizabeth Foss
We are fast approaching the end of a season, and the beginning, I hope, of a bright new one. 
3/28/18
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By Marcellino D'ambrosio

In the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and all the popes since, we hear over and over again that evangelization is the primary task of the church. In fact, in 1990, St. John Paul II declared, "I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the church's energies to a new evangelization."

3/28/18
Reading Time 4 min
By John Garvey
We recently added the papers of Father Richard John Neuhaus to our university library's collection of important figures in American Catholic history. 
3/28/18
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