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What does the church teach about what happens after someone dies? The reason I bring it up is that often when I attend a Catholic funeral, I hear the priest say in a homily that the deceased is now in heaven and suffering no more. But how does that fit in with the church's teaching on purgatory?
Is it my husband's and my responsibility to get these children to Mass each Sunday? We have taken them at times, but now they are coming up with any excuse not to go.
A religious brother, a campus ministry director and a youth minister who is a wife and new mother have been named to represent the United States as young adult delegates at a pre-synod gathering in Rome in March.
p class="Body">On this World Day for Consecrated Life, we celebrate the men and women religious who consecrate their lives to the Lord through the counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s.
p class="Body">When it came time to interview prospective sailors for his expedition across Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton had clear-cut criteria. He had to pick the right men for his journey to the bottom of the world, a news-making attempt to be the first to cross the continent via the coldest place on Earth: the South Pole.
When I give to someone else the rare gift of genuine presence, I give them the essence of Christian compassion. Compassion calls us to suffer with someone, to enter into whatever it is that causes pain.
The Beacon newspaper, in partnership with the Maryland Federation of Art, invites seniors to submit artwork to a regional Celebration of the Arts competition this spring. The competition is part of a yearlong project intended to inspire readers to try a new means of self-expression through the arts.
