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WASHINGTON – “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is commonsense legislation that would ensure fairness for female athletes,” said Bishop Robert E. Barron and Bishop David M. O’Connell, CM, in response to a failed procedural vote in the Senate earlier this week on S.9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of…
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. With details concerning the lives of many early martyrs unclear and often based on legend, we are fortunate to have the actual record of the courage of Perpetua and Felicity from the hand…
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Do we see the necessity of the Cross in our lives? This is a question that is posed to us throughout the Lenten season. There are areas of our lives where we need to be pruned, purified, and set free. The Lord accomplishes this work through our willed mortifications, but most especially through unwilled sufferings….
In the annals of English history, Alfred of Wessex stands out as one of the great Catholic monarchs of the medieval period. In this article, we shall review the life and character of this most exemplary 9th century ruler, who in every way stands as a model Catholic king. In the 9th century, England was…
Reading 1 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday on his 20th day in Rome’s Gemelli hospital by taking part in the rite of the blessing of the ashes and receiving them in a short prayer service, the Vatican said. While the 88-year-old pope’s overall clinical case remained complex, his condition was “stable” and he…
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For the past six decades, the agency has been operated on the morally bankrupt principle that the best way to eliminate poverty is to eliminate the children of the poor. (Michael Hichborn and Steven Mosher/National Catholic Register) — The National … Continue reading → The post USAID Has Always Been About Population Control appeared first…
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Yesterday — before the President’s speech last night — Phil Lawler published an excellent opinion piece on an issue that is or should be of paramount importance to Catholics who would like to see respect for the Natural Law enshrined … Continue reading → The post Phil Lawler’s Sage Catholic Political Advice: ‘Don’t give Trump…
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ROME (CNS) — The journey of Lent “unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility and the hope that, at the end of the road, the Risen Lord is waiting for us,” Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday. “Indeed, the ashes help to remind us that our lives are fragile and insignificant: we…
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