Opportunities for witness and evangelization are everywhere and all about us.
A tale of two weddings
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Marriage & Family Life
How to get past the polarization
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
We need to listen respectfully to each other. Then we need to seek areas of agreement.
Evening news despair and Easter hope
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Guest Commentary
A news anchor’s grim highlights of Armageddon will never be the last word. But the final chapter has been written already by the Lord of Easter.
Lessons to be learned from Ukraine’s witness
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, War in Ukraine
The scenes of brave Ukrainians standing in front of tanks, making Molotov cocktails, picking up arms to fight an overwhelming aggressor, taps into some powerful American myths about righteous struggles and David vs. Goliath contests.
In the storm’s wake, our neighbors need us
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, News, World News
Christmas this year is arriving amid shock and tears. The images of devastation wrought by at least 22 tornadoes slashing their way through Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois are etched in our national consciousness.
The miracle we share at every Mass
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Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Guest Commentary
Much of the media coverage this year has focused on whether it will call out Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. According to the draft sent to the bishops in September and subsequently leaked to The Pillar, it does not.
When our children leave the faith
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
The real enemy of the faith in our age is indifference. Combatting this enemy may be the biggest challenge facing our parishes, and our families, today.
Going buggy with Brood X
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Feature, Guest Commentary
Brood X is to the normal summer cicada what King Kong is to Tarzan’s Cheeta: something else entirely.
How badly do we want to return?
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary
The moment is arriving when parish and diocesan staff must use all the tools available to them to create a welcoming community, giving people a reason to come back as soon as they feel safe to do so.
Doctrine committee sets standards for evaluating, improving church hymns
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Eucharist, Feature, News, World News
Expressing concern for the doctrinal soundness of some of the lyrics of Catholic hymns now available for use in Catholic liturgies, the U.S. bishops’ doctrine committee in a forthcoming report suggests guidelines for bishops in evaluating hymn lyrics and for selecting hymnals being considered for use in churches.
Bishops say Our Lady of America apparitions were not supernatural
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Filed Under: News, World News
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, and five other bishops have concluded that alleged apparitions of Our Lady of America — said to have taken place more than six decades ago — were not of supernatural origin.
Why we should care about the beloved Amazon
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
The plight of the Amazon is a wicked problem demanding enormous resources and focus from a variety of countries, yet without certainty of the results nor the avoidance of unintended consequences.
