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How does one qualify to be an apostle? The first act of the apostles after the Ascension of Jesus was to find a replacement for Judas. With all the questions, doubts, and dangers facing them, they chose to focus their attention on finding a twelfth apostle. Why was this important? Twelve was a very important…
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(Stavroula Pabst/Responsible Statecraft via LifeSiteNews) — President Trump’s foreign policy envoy on Thursday criticized those who are trying to undermine the president’s negotiations to place limits on Iran’s nuclear program, saying they have a “bias toward military action,” adding that … Continue reading → The post Trump envoy Steve Witkoff calls out neocons pushing for…
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Whenever I have spoken to groups about the Church’s teaching against in vitro fertilization (IVF), especially to groups of young people, someone always asks how to talk about this topic if there are people present who were themselves conceived in this way. The moral discussion about how IVF separates the unitive (love-making) from the procreative…
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My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me. St. John had a vision of what he described as “a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their…
Reading I Acts 11:19-26 Those who had been scattered by the persecution that arose because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but Jews. There were some Cypriots and Cyrenians among them, however, who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks as well,…
Abortion Giant’s Annual Report Labeled “Disingenuous” in Accounting of Staggering Abortion Pill Numbers (Fredericksburg, Virginia) — American Life League cries “foul” on Planned Parenthood’s annual report, released on May 12, 2025. One of the key reasons that the Planned Parenthood … Continue reading → The post American Life League Disparages Planned Parenthood’s Horrifically Inappropriate ‘Mother’s…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the release of journalists imprisoned for their work. “The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations and the international community, calling on all of us to safeguard the…
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