By Soren Johnson
Call it my Lego epiphany. For many months my 10-year-old son has been building Lego ships. Then one day he started to hit me with questions about hulls, torpedoes and naval maneuvers like “crossing the T.” Then he asked me about the Battle of the Denmark Strait and other World War II battles. And suddenly, […]
5/6/15
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By Christina Capecchi
On Sunday night the email landed in Mike Foss’ inbox: He had been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” the business magazine’s annual list of rising stars younger than 30. Mike Foss, the soccer player from Springfield, the kid who had been home-schooled through 12th grade. This sent Facebook abuzz: boldfaced evidence that home schooling […]
5/6/15
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By Russell Shaw
When Pope Francis comes to the United States in late September, chances are good that he will arrive in the middle of a bitter, highly politicized national debate on same-sex marriage and religious liberty. That suggests several large questions for the papal visit. Should the pope say anything about these high-voltage issues? Given the circumstances, […]
5/6/15
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By Fr. Jack Peterson, Ya
The saving events we remember during the Easter season are the high point of the church’s liturgical year. It is from them that we receive new life in Christ and in them that we that we discover the true measure of God’s unfathomable love for us. The readings for the sixth Sunday in Easter invite […]
5/6/15
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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The Holy Year of Mercy will be an opportunity to encourage Christians to meet people’s “real needs” with concrete assistance, to experience a “true pilgrimage” on foot, and to send “missionaries of mercy” throughout the world to forgive even the most serious of sins, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella. The yearlong extraordinary jubilee […]
5/5/15
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By Fr. William Saunders
Q: On Easter Sunday, the priest at my parish made a point in his homily about the burial cloths left in the tomb of the Lord. I know about the Shroud of Turn being the burial cloth of Jesus, but is there another cloth that we have? – A reader in Sterling A: In the […]
4/29/15
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By George Weigel
Although he scored 40 times in an eight-year NFL career, he is best known for the touchdown he didn’t score, as the sun set over Yankee Stadium Dec. 28, 1958. His wife of 59 years, Joan, said that Jim Mutscheller, who died April 10, wanted to be known as a man “who had led a […]
4/29/15
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At the Last Supper, Jesus warned His apostles, “Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.” It is important to recognize the context in which these words were spoken, for in a few hours the soldiers would take […]
4/29/15
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By Elizabeth Foss
“The mercy of God is poured out upon us, making us just and giving us peace. This is a time for the Church to rediscover the meaning of the mission entrusted to her by the Lord on the day of Easter: to be a sign and an instrument of the Father’s mercy.” – Pope Francis […]
4/29/15
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