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Who is the most influential person the world has ever known? A pop music star? A Hollywood icon? Another entertainer? Perhaps an educator, philosopher, or inventor? A political candidate or other occasional menace to society? Indeed, none of these. If you open a world history textbook used in many educational institutions around the globe, perhaps […]
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October is the Catholic Church’s annual celebration of “Respect Life Month.” Whether in the midst of an election cycle or at any other point during the year, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves that all faithful disciples are encouraged to embrace our universal call to holiness, no matter our circumstances. This is perhaps particularly evident
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On October 2, 2016, the iconic Vin Scully, at eighty-nine years young, broadcast his last game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were facing the New York Giants at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Nonetheless, the Dodgers lost 7-1. But victory was still had in the form of Vin Scully’s poise-laden professional career. Vin Scully’s
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(It would not be possible, let alone practical, to consider or even posit the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to marriage and sexual morality without primarily including Jesus’ teachings. Thus, it would be worthwhile to review his assertions as they appear in Matthew 19:1-12 and Mark 10:1-12.) On Tuesday, September 20,
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Did you know that, according to modest estimates, a Bible owned by a noble family in the Middle Ages would have cost the family the modern-day equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars? That’s more than a few flights back and forth to Rome to rub the foot on the statue of Saint Peter! And,
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Various Catholic bishops of the United States have recently reaffirmed the Church’s timeless teaching on the sacrament of marriage as the sacred union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The Catholic Church’s teaching on the sanctity of marriage is, of course, based on Christ’s, as seen in Matthew 19:1-12 and Mark
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“I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) It is not easy to be a parent in modern times. On the one hand, there are numerous negative pressures from the media and various strata of society. On the other hand, there is a lack of support for families
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On September 2, 2016, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a news release titled “USCCB General Counsel Urges NIH Not to Fund Unethical Human/Animal Chimera Research.” According to the USCCB’s letter to the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Science Policy (linked at the bottom of the news release), “Herein lies the key
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We are all busy (or so it seems), reliably busier than we ought to be. There seems to be little time to read for inspiration. However, quality Catholic reading is necessary if we are to grow in our journey with the Lord. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis on
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Of course, every episode was good, but Mother Angelica’s opening lines were truly profound, inspiring, sometimes sobering, and often hilarious, as only Mother Angelica was able to do. 1. Living the Holy Life “Do you all know you can be holy? Did you ever think that God called you to be holy?” (originally aired September
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On Sunday, August 28, 2016, a young jihadist would-be suicide bomber who appears to have been inspired by the Islamic State attempted to detonate an explosive device carried in his backpack during Sunday Mass at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, a parish in the Archdiocese of Medan, Indonesia. Medan is the capital city of the region
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In August of 2016, both The Washington Post and Business Insider chronicled the financial success of Rob and Sam Fatzinger, a dynamic husband and wife team, and how they have managed to raise their thirteen children debt-free in one of the most expensive regions in the United States. These two articles are very worthwhile, both
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Catholics sometimes have the ignoble distinction of not being sufficiently familiar with the Bible, or as familiar as we ought to be. That is unfortunate, in either appearance or actuality, particularly considering that the Catholic Church provided all twenty-seven books of the canon of the New Testament, not to mention going on two-thousand years of
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On the evening of Sunday, August 14, 2016, famed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won gold in a characteristically dynamic and seemingly effortless 100-meter performance at his third consecutive Olympics, this time in Rio de Janeiro, making him the first athlete to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash. Bolt’s rocketry on
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The Congregation of Holy Cross was founded by the French priest Blessed Basil Moreau in 1837. On September 15, 2007, Blessed Basil was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI. Saint André Bessette (the first Holy Cross saint) was likewise canonized by Pope Benedict on October 17, 2010. Since Catholic education around the globe is a prime mission of
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