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St. Michael Church held a Eucharistic procession to honor the patron saint of Ireland. br />br />
Nigeria — into famine, the World Food Program warned.
EMMITSBURG, Md. — The faded black bonnet with its gently ruffled frill once framed the face of the nation's first American-born saint.
WASHINGTON — The Jesuit order is pledging to raise $100 million for descendants of enslaved people once owned and sold by their order as a way to make reparations and also help the nation move toward racial healing.
WASHINGTON — Legislation introduced in the Senate and the House aims to protect "the cherished freedom of religious liberty" of faith-based foster care and adoption providers who believe children "deserve to be placed with a married mother and father," the chairmen of three U.S. bishops' committees said March 15.
WASHINGTON — Patrick Kelly's formal installation as the 14th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus is still off in the indefinite future because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but he officially began his new job March 1 at the Knights' headquarters in New Haven, Conn.
YANGON, Myanmar — The United Nations and human right groups have strongly condemned the worsening bloodshed in Myanmar as at least 38 people were killed in the military's crackdown on protesters March 14.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — It was a bitterly cold night in the dead of winter 1868, and Bethlehem Academy was nearly out of firewood.
Midpoint in Lent is a great time to pause and take stock. Most of us probably started Lent with a bang, filled with determination to make good use of this opportunity for penance and renewal. And now? How are we doing at keeping those good resolutions we made on Ash Wednesday? Forgotten what the resolutions were? Now, while it’s still Lent, there’s plenty of time left for a fresh start.
Non sequiturs?
Many times when we read the Gospels, we run into apparent non sequiturs. We might sit there puzzling for quite some time over what Jesus’ words mean and why he chose those particular words in response to that particular question or situation. Apparent non sequiturs are always a good place to dig in.