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The Christian call to love our neighbor

By Mary Narayan
Thank you to the Arlington Catholic Herald for the article about Hispanic undocumented immigrants turning to the church for faith and assistance as they cope with government initiatives which target them. Their plight seems desperate, and it does seem our Christian call to love our neighbor (Mark 12: 31), to welcome the stranger (Matthew 25:35), […]
3/6/17
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Celebrate the feast of St. Katharine Drexel

By Elizabeth A. Elliott

In next week’s issue of the Catholic Herald, I share my top 5 spiritual sites within a three-hour drive. Today’s feast day of St. Katharine Drexel is the perfect time to consider visiting her national shrine in Bensalem, Pa. 

3/3/17
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A day without women

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Remember back in the old days, when they used to say that a beautiful woman “could stop traffic”?          Well, it seems that modern-day feminists are reviving the idea, but with a twist. Apparently women are supposed to actually stop traffic and not with our beauty. March 8 has been designated “A Day without a Woman.” […]
3/2/17
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The master faster

By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
Gospel Commentary Mt 4:1-11   When Jesus was fasting in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, there were no reporters covering the event. We know that the devil, the tempter, made an unfriendly visit. We know that the angels came after that to minister to Jesus. Otherwise, we can expect that Jesus was […]
3/1/17
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Other persons are a gift

By Sr. Constance Veit, L.s.p.
A few days ago I met a little girl who made a big impression on me. Grace and her older brother Benedict suffer from a rare genetic disorder that has resulted in serious hearing impairment and limited physical growth. The two come to our home for the elderly each week with their mother to pray […]
3/1/17
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Deserving a break

By Soren Johnson
“I deserve a break.”  For some of us guys — allow me to speak in hypotheticals—  these four words are intoxicating.  You come home tired from work. Up since 5 a.m. The kids are fighting. New bills to pay, old ones yet unpaid. A new question from your boss dings your inbox. A kid mouths […]
3/1/17
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Cultivating a life

By Christina Capecchi
The old farmers used to say you should leave a field better than you found it. Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you crossed and placing it at the field’s edge. That counsel stuck with Amy Hereford, who grew up on a 10-acre Missouri farm […]
3/1/17
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The Johnson Amendment

By John Garvey
At the National Prayer Breakfast last month, President Donald Trump promised to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment “and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution.” I must confess that, on the list of things I hope the new administration will accomplish this year, this one is fairly far down. […]
3/1/17
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#Ashtags: When posting Ash Wednesday photos, use your head

By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON — Ash Wednesday seems to offer contradictory messages. The Gospel reading for the day is about not doing public acts of piety but the very act of getting ashes — and walking around with them — is pretty public. This becomes even less of a private moment when people post pictures of themselves online […]
2/23/17
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