By Russell Shaw
While President Obama is correct in saying the war on terror is not and mustn’t become a war against Islam, it would be foolish to ignore the religious dimension of Islamic terrorism as now reflected in the Holy Week attacks in Brussels. To do that would risk making the secularist world view underlying the strategic […]
4/13/16
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By Fr. Robert J. Wagner
On the shore of the Sea of Tiberias, also called the Sea of Galilee, there is a small church whose sanctuary is built around a large, flat rock. The church is called the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter, and the rock is the location where Jesus prepared and ate breakfast with the apostles […]
4/8/16
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By Soren Johnson
Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”) should be out (or nearly) by the time you read this. If you are still reading this column, props to you. Because for the most part our “Culture of the Big Me” doesn’t do – or understand – “exhortation.” We don’t want to “exhort,” much […]
4/6/16
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By Timothy O'donnell
On Easter Sunday, Mother Angelica passed from our world at the age of 92, leaving behind a great legacy that will continue to live on across television screens “the world over,” as people tune in to programing on her Eternal Word Television Network, otherwise known as EWTN. Her passing in some ways reminds me of […]
4/6/16
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By Elizabeth Foss
I have a personal relationship with Christ. That is, He and I talk off and on all day long, inside my head. It’s our relationship – real, alive and very much awake and aware of my world, the sphere in which I orbit, the daily round of my private life. I bring Him my needs […]
4/5/16
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By Fr. Stanley J. Krempa
This Sunday speaks to us of God’s mercy. Reflection on God’s mercy is as ancient as the Psalms, as old as St. John’s account of blood and water flowing from Christ’s side on the cross, as traditional as the First Friday Sacred Heart devotion and as contemporary as Divine Mercy Sunday in our parish churches. […]
3/30/16
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By George Weigel
When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium,”) Pope Paul VI proposed that it include a statement that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone.” The suggestion was referred to the Council’s Theological Commission, which, perhaps to Pope […]
3/30/16
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By Katie Scott
Susan Pawlukiewicz traveled to Poland three years ago bearing immense grief over the recent loss of her mother. About seven weeks later, she returned to the United States with a sense of peace and gratitude – and a duffle bag filled with 35 rolled-up prints. She wasn’t sure what to do with the large pieces […]
3/30/16
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By Russell Shaw
News that Pope Francis will travel to Sweden in October for an event marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation underlines the fact that the Catholic Counter-Reformation is over. Whether Protestants are prepared to say the same about the Reformation is for them to decide. A Catholic can only hope. To say that these […]
3/23/16
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