If the Cross of Christ shows us anything, it is that loving sinners requires a willingness to suffer.
Loving sinners, admonishing sin
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
A new heart this Lent
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Every one of us needs the grace of new life in Christ, and the entirely new heart that goes with it.
Reviving monasticism
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Filed Under: Commentary, Vocations
Monasticism first emerged as a lay movement focused on cultivating a deep and radical love for both God and neighbor.
Total immersion
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Filed Under: Commentary
Catholic Christianity isn’t an extracurricular, or even a program of instruction. Nor is it merely a way to live our lives. Following Christ is life, and it comes with a language and culture all its own.
Hope and its enemies
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Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025
As a new year begins, it’s natural to look to the future with a sense of hope. But for Catholics, the Holy Year 2025 presents a unique opportunity to explore and cultivate hope — and to examine what makes it so difficult to hold onto.
Opening up bricked-in doors
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Filed Under: Commentary, Jubilee 2025
Splendor and reverence are largely absent from our daily lives, and mostly abandoned by the dominant secular culture that casualizes almost everything.
Advent: We see what we’re looking for
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Filed Under: Advent, Commentary
During Advent, the church encourages us to renew our search for God and teaches us how and where to look for him.
A faith that questions
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Filed Under: Bible, Commentary
Salvation history can be told through the questions that appear in Scripture.
Master of all the saints
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Filed Under: Commentary, Saints
Saints are satisfied only by God himself; nothing less than God or other than him will do. And for those who are holy, God alone is enough. Nothing else is wanted, needed, or required.
Hail Mary: ‘Now, and at the hour of our death’
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Filed Under: Commentary
The “Hail Mary” reminds us that life is short. By asking the Blessed Virgin Mary to pray for us not only now but when we will need her intercession most, we prayerfully place the rest of our earthly lives in her maternal hands.
The battles we fight
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Filed Under: Commentary
It’s wise to acknowledge that not every fight can be won; that we may not have the resources to sustain a war on many fronts; that victory sometimes costs us more than we can afford
We cannot follow Jesus and sidestep the cross
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Filed Under: Commentary
The road of discipleship is the way of the cross. Embracing it is the secret path to holiness — and there is no other.
