Q: In the past few weeks, due to extreme weather, I’ve missed Mass a couple of times. My parish has a Facebook channel, so I watched the services there instead. …
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Whew, what a week! We’ve covered celebrities (Mark Wahlberg Jonathan Roumie, Andrea Bocelli and others), a controversial funeral, warnings of possible schism in the church, what to expect to encounter …
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What am I doing for Lent? Ash Wednesday arrived and I hadn’t devoted much brainpower to it, to be honest. Late nights with kids, getting up to speed at work …
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(OSV News) — Season four of “The Chosen,” the wildly popular series on the life of Jesus that began its existence as a crowd-funded streaming series, is finally here, much …
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Today’s the feast of St. Apollonia, the patron saint of dentistry and toothaches — for the gristly reason her martyrdom involved Apollonia’s teeth being pulled or broken before she was …
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Amid the distractions of everyday life, it is easy to miss the treasure of timeless wisdom the church has in the form of spiritual works throughout the centuries. In reflecting …
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Every evening the Church remembers the words of the elderly Simeon with the closing canticle of Compline: “Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine…” But in the Bible verses just after his …
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Jb 7:1-4, 6-7Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-61 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23Mk 1:29-39 We’ve all been there. At the end of a long day, the phone rings, there’s a knock on the door, …
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By Peter K. Kilpatrick It is fitting that as Catholic Schools Week begins and we mark the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, that we …
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Every morning in the wee small hours lately, I read or listen to the daily Mass readings on the USCCB website as I feed the twins. Usually I’m struggling to …
