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Are you a Christian who is interested in offering your services to organizations or programs that aim to help those in need? If you are, you will find that you have a number of different options. For starters, there are Christian organization and groups that operate solely online, locally, or with a combination of the…
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“…a new vision that overturns established practices.” – Synod on Synodality The words above may well come back to haunt the Church. Last month, the Vatican concluded years of gatherings by bishops, clergy, and laity initiated by Pope Francis. The hierarchy within the Catholic Church calls it a “process”—more specifically—the Synod on Synodality. This multi-year…
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Many years ago, Father George L. Thomas knocked on the door of a small rectory at Saint Thomas the Apostle Seminary. Residing there was the Metropolitan of Seattle, Hunthausen. When asked what he was doing before being interrupted by Thomas, he stated “I’m sitting here letting Jesus love me.” In those seven words, Hunthausen revealed…
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Reading 1 PHIL 2:12-18 My beloved, obedient as you have always been,not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent,work out your salvation with fear and trembling.For God is the one who, for his good purpose,works in you both to desire and to work.Do everything without grumbling or questioning,that…
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There’s a short story—more of a modern-day parable—about a man who found a TV remote control on the street with no batteries inside. None of the buttons worked, except, when he pressed the fast forward button, the entire device lit up in a neon red color. He then looked at his watch and noticed that…
ROME (CNS) — Fewer lecterns and more round tables are needed in higher education for students and staff to come together to dialogue, seek the truth and truly fulfill the mandate of a Jesuit-run institution, Pope Francis said. “Have you asked yourself the question of where you are going and why you are doing the…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Remembering the cardinals and bishops who died in the past year, Pope Francis prayed that after their loving service to the Catholic Church “they may exult in eternal communion with the saints.” At the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pope presided over a memorial Mass Nov. 4…
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Are we watching someone in the process of conversion? Maybe. She’s still an atheist, but Marguerite Stern has apologized for her topless desecration of Notre Dame Cathedral. The former FEMEN activist has become “socially conservative,” after realizing that the “woke” … Continue reading → The post Radical Feminist Who Desecrated Notre Dame Cathedral Apologizes to…
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The Church venerates the sanctity of Sylvia and Gordian, the parents of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, as well as his two aunts, Tarsilla and Emiliana. St. Sylvia, who was a native of Sicily, and St. Gordian who was from the vicinity of Rome, also had another son, but unfortunately his name has been lost to…