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On pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe

By Fr. Will Nyce
“Behold your mother.” This was Our Lord’s final request before his death. Standing by the cross and looking to Mary, the beloved disciple was the first to receive this key to the spiritual life that Christians have employed down through the centuries: Be imitators of Christ by loving his mother. These words are perhaps the […]
4/4/22
Reading Time 4 min

A Marian shrine, stateside

By Patricia Kasten
GREEN BAY — We all know about the famous Marian shrines: Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Lourdes in France. But did you know there is a church-approved apparition of Mary right here in the United States? The site is known as the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion. Bishop […]
4/1/22
Reading Time 3 min

A way forward

By Steven Oetjen
Gospel Commentary April 3, jn 8:1-11 They “made her stand in the middle.” This woman, who had been caught in the act of adultery, was now all of a sudden in the midst of a sort of trial. She must have felt trapped. Perhaps she wished to herself, “If only I could take it back. […]
4/1/22
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Abortion travel benefits?

By Olivia Gans Turner
As most of America knows, some states recently have provided greater protections to unborn children, which has resulted in appeals to the Supreme Court. Most of the attention this past year has been on the Mississippi law that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation (Dobbs v. Jackson), and Texas laws that are awaiting court […]
3/30/22
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Get unstuck

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Stop me if this sounds familiar. You go to confession regularly. You confess basically the same sins every time. Nothing serious, just your “regular rotation” of garden variety vices. You generally, at the time, intend to stop. But there’s a part of you that wonders what you would confess if you jettisoned them. So, you […]
3/29/22
Reading Time 4 min

Question Corner: Friday abstinence for vegans

By Fr. Kenneth Doyle
Friday abstinence for vegans What do persons who don’t normally eat meat do about the church’s rules on abstinence, such as on the Fridays during Lent? Nowadays, many Catholics are mainly fish eaters anyway, or they are vegans or vegetarians. What can they do to participate in the discipline of the church? (New Middletown, Ind.) […]
3/28/22
Reading Time 4 min

40 Days 40 Ways

By Catholic Herald
Daily Lenten reflections to transform your family. Challenge: Today, try and use your words for only good. Stop if you find yourself saying something negative or judgmental. Reflection: (Bearing all things) implies limiting judgment, checking the impulse to issue a firm and ruthless condemnation: “Judge not and you will not be judged” (Lk 6:37). Although […]
3/28/22
Reading Time 4 min

The gift of the Eucharist

By Paul H. Rhee
I knelt in awe before Jesus in the monstrance. It was finally 5 p.m., I’d finished all my classes for the day and it was time for adoration. I went to my seat in the chapel and knelt down in my pew as one of the faculty priests exposed Our Lord in the monstrance and […]
3/25/22
Reading Time 2 min

Most merciful Father

By Fr. Jack Peterson, YA
Jesus crashed down through the barriers of time and space and took on our human condition for a number of wonderful reasons, including to redeem the world from sin, to demonstrate the depths of God’s love for us, to open the gates to heaven, to reveal and model a way of life that leads to […]
3/25/22
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Letting go of the noise

By Philip D. Briggs
A few days after Christmas, my cell phone went off. Not because it was ringing, nor was I receiving a notification or a text. It was going off because I was powering it down. As I began an eight-day silent retreat in Texas, all electronic devices were being turned off, preparing me for the coming […]
3/25/22
Reading Time 2 min

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