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Hard times coming, whoever wins
2024 ElectionCommentaryThe Catholic Difference

Hard times coming, whoever wins

George WeigelOctober 30, 20244 min read
Given an ever-darkening international landscape and the pandering of both parties to our baser instincts, the realistic conclusion is that whoever wins the White House, hard times are coming.
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Analysis: Permanent deacons are key to a ‘synodal missionary church’ — the synod needed them
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Analysis: Permanent deacons are key to a ‘synodal missionary church’ — the synod needed them

Kimberly HeatheringtonOctober 25, 20248 min read
Most of the world’s dioceses do not have permanent deacons as envisioned by Vatican II — in fact, the United States alone accounts for almost 21,000 of the some 50,000 permanent deacons globally in the Catholic Church today.
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Changes at St. Dominic hit close to home
CommentarySeek the City to Come

Changes at St. Dominic hit close to home

Gerry JacksonOctober 24, 20243 min read
As the Archdiocese of Baltimore gets ready to merge parishes and eventually shutter some sites throughout Baltimore City, one change hits close to home.
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100 Masses in a Year
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100 Masses in a Year

Rita BuettnerOctober 23, 20244 min read
Back in December, my husband told me about a friend who set a goal to spend 100 hours on his boat during 2023. I found myself wondering what I could do 100 times in a year. I told our oldest son that maybe I would try to go to 100 Masses. “You probably already go […]
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Question Corner: What is church’s teaching on transgender issues?
CommentaryQuestion Corner

Question Corner: What is church’s teaching on transgender issues?

Jenna Marie CooperOctober 23, 20244 min read
The church is against any “gender ideology” that would separate the concept of psychological gender from biological sex; or which would propose that one’s sex could be changed through medical or surgical means; or which would hold that one’s bodily sex could be somehow wrong or mistaken in light of one’s self-perception of one’s gender.
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Forming your conscience heading into the 2024 election
2024 ElectionCommentary

Forming your conscience heading into the 2024 election

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzioOctober 21, 20244 min read
Voting after reflecting on a Catholic well-formed conscience will not be an easy matter in this election, but as we vote, we must seek God’s assistance.
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A Eucharistic Word: Fruitfulness
CommentaryEucharist

A Eucharistic Word: Fruitfulness

Michael R. HeinleinOctober 20, 20244 min read
The Eucharist truly is the gift that shapes our character into his. We pray, as St. Augustine preached, that we will ever more fully become who we receive.
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Reunions in graveyards
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Reunions in graveyards

Effie CaldarolaOctober 18, 20243 min read
It’s not macabre to love a graveyard. On the contrary, there’s a feeling of continuity, of belonging, of hope in resurrection. It impresses on me the shortness of this earthly journey and the gratitude I have for my loved ones.
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Question Corner: If most of us go to purgatory at death, are Catholics ‘saved?’
CommentaryQuestion Corner

Question Corner: If most of us go to purgatory at death, are Catholics ‘saved?’

Jenna Marie CooperOctober 16, 20244 min read
Although purgatory is not exactly a “punishment” in the way we would tend to use the term today, traditionally purgatory has been understood to involve a degree of suffering.
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Proclaim the good news in this election cycle
2024 ElectionCommentary

Proclaim the good news in this election cycle

Scott P. RichertOctober 16, 20244 min read
You don’t need to attack a candidate to explain why this policy that he has proposed, or that action that her administration has taken, doesn’t align with Catholic teaching.
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