A meditation on “Maranatha”

A meditation on “Maranatha”

By George Weigel on Dec 06, 2017 03:01 am
To say “Jesus is Lord” impels us – or should impel us – to offer others the gift of friendship with the Son that we [...]
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Soccer as a theological question: On the Pope’s return from Myanmar and Bangladesh

By James V. Schall, S.J. on Dec 06, 2017 02:34 am
What struck me about this particular interview, given this past Saturday, was the lack of any mention of the need of sacraments, of transcendent concerns, [...]
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You Better Watch Out—St. Nicholas is Coming to Town

By Christopher B. Warner on Dec 05, 2017 06:00 pm
The seldom-told stories of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. [...]
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Suffering Advent

By Dale Ahlquist on Dec 05, 2017 04:37 pm
The secular world calls it the Holiday Season. The Catholic Church calls it Advent. The two are starkly different, but the one thing they have [...]
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Archbishop Naumann: “If the Church is silent on the destruction of life, we’re being negligent”

By Jim Graves on Dec 04, 2017 03:25 pm
The recently elected USCCB's head of the Committee of Pro-Life Activities discusses his many years of service in the pro-life cause, preaching about abortion, pro-abortion Catholic [...]
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Pope Francis’ letter to the Argentine bishops is in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Now what?

By Edward N. Peters on Dec 04, 2017 12:12 pm
Canon 915 and the fundamental sacramental and moral values behind it might be forgotten, ignored, or ridiculed, but unless and until that law is revoked [...]
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Who are the friends of religious liberty?

By Thomas R. Ascik on Dec 04, 2017 03:53 am
A breakdown of who is siding with who in the “cake case,” Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, scheduled for oral arguments in the Supreme [...]
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The first guide for Advent: St. John the Baptist

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Dec 03, 2017 11:39 pm
Silence bespeaks expediency, complicity, and cowardice, and John the Baptist never kept silent, for even in the womb he announced the truth of Christ (cf. [...]
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Divinely Planned Obsolescence

By Thomas J. Nash on Dec 03, 2017 07:07 pm
Why the Temple in Jerusalem will never be rebuilt and how the Sacrifice of the Mass is "the source and summit of evangelization". [...]
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Full text of Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Bangladesh

By Catholic News Agency on Dec 02, 2017 11:45 pm
In a 58-minute conversation with journalists on his return flight from Bangladesh to Rome on Saturday, Pope Francis discussed the Rohingya people of Burma, evangelization, [...]
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