Let this Valentine’s Day be an opportunity to let people know that they matter to us.
Let people know they matter
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
Commentary
Building a wall against life
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Filed Under: A More Human Society, Commentary
In what Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a “historic victory for New Yorkers,” New York has passed what may be the nation’s most extreme and irresponsible abortion law.
Find extraordinary in the ordinary
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Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church
We can encounter God in the awesome majesty of a mountaintop sunrise or a scrunched bouquet of dandelion’s in a child’s fist.
One more benefit of Catholic schools
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Filed Under: Amen, Commentary
Catholic Schools Week always serves as a time to reflect upon the many gifts that those institutions give us: a solid education, a deeper faith and lasting friendships.
Emulate God, work together
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Filed Under: Commentary, Wit & Wisdom
There is divinity flowing though us all the time. We just have to believe that. And then winter will turn to spring.
A month of purification
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Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, From the Archbishop
May februum, the month of February, be the beginning of that deep purification that will renew and beautify the temple of the church.
New York, abortion and a short route to chaos
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Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire
Abandoning the convictions of one’s conscience in the exercise of one’s public duties is precisely equivalent to “I’m personally opposed but unwilling to take concrete action to instantiate my opposition.”
Rite of betrothal/ Praying for Pope Benedict
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
Father Doyle fields questions about the Rite of Betrothal and praying for Pope Benedict XVI at Mass.
One man’s meat
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Intellect and Virtue
Learning to speak and write clearly is essential to success in all the disciplines that young people are flocking to these days.
Recovering intimacy in a lonely world
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Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary
Rather than “Thou shalt not” as its battle cry, the church can offer a genuinely positive vision of “the joy of love,” a holistic understanding of sex and intimacy for a society increasingly despairing about both.
Talking to some young Jesuits about social justice and evangelization
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Filed Under: Commentary, Social Justice, Word on Fire
I told my young Jesuit conversation partners that they ought to follow the prompt of our Jesuit pope and go not just to the economic margins but to the “existential margins”—that is to say, to those who have lost the faith, lost any contact with God, who have not heard the Good News.
Mary ever-virgin/Memorial Mass for Protestant?
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner
Father Doyle fields questions about the Blessed Virgin Mary’s virginity and offering Mass for non-Catholics.
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