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WASHINGTON — The annual gathering of Catholic educators from around the country April 6-8 was in many ways a tribute to how they have done their jobs this past year amid COVID-19. 

“Incredulous for joy” is the phrase that St. Luke uses to describe the disciples’ reaction when they saw the risen Lord. Could this really be happening? Could he really be back from the dead — not just a ghost, not just a figment of my imagination, but truly back from the dead, standing right before me in the flesh?

Intellectual confusion resembling a smog of the mind has been a deadening presence in Catholicism in the years since the Second Vatican Council. But here and there amid the swirling mists of bad arguments and lame analogies, a small yet significant body of Catholic intellectuals has stood firm in defense of clear thinking and good sense. 

VATICAN CITY — Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together and ensuring that service, not power, motivates the request for ordination are all possible outcomes of a major symposium being planned by the Vatican in February 2022.

For more than a year, our country and the entire world has been combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home orders, face mask requirements and social distancing have become familiar government-backed restrictions to protect the public and curb the spread of the illness.  

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Despite COVID-19 restrictions and various challenges posed by continuous volcanic eruptions and ashfall on St. Vincent and the Grenadines and neighboring islands, dioceses in the West Indies have rallied to the aid of those affected by La Soufrière volcano.

MANCHESTER, England — The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II remembers Prince Philip as a man so deeply interested in God that he often would arrange conversations with Jewish and Muslim scholars, then put himself into the role of the Christian theologian.

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