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Pray the news, pray the media, and imbue the culture with Christ
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Pray the news, pray the media, and imbue the culture with Christ

Sister Nancy UsslemannDecember 6, 20234 min read
Growing our spiritual lives while immersed in a digital world requires a media spirituality that centers us in Christ, the perfect communicator.
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Can one Mass satisfy my Sunday and Christmas obligation in 2023?
ChristmasCommentaryQuestion Corner

Can one Mass satisfy my Sunday and Christmas obligation in 2023?

Jenna Marie CooperDecember 6, 20234 min read
You cannot “double dip” by attending a Christmas eve Mass that happens to be on Sunday and have this one Mass fulfill two obligations.
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Keep the candle lit: pouring out the greatest gift
ChristmasCommentaryYoung Adult Ministry

Keep the candle lit: pouring out the greatest gift

Christina CapecchiDecember 5, 20234 min read
The things we buy cannot replace quality time spent with loved ones.
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Detachment as a component of God’s peace
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Detachment as a component of God’s peace

Elizabeth ScaliaDecember 4, 20235 min read
Detachment scares people — it sounds like coldness or indifference — but I’m coming to believe it’s actually a deep manifestation of love.
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How shall we continue?
Charity in TruthChild & Youth ProtectionCommentaryFrom the Archbishop

How shall we continue?

Archbishop William E. LoriDecember 4, 20234 min read
Pope Francis wrote about encountering Christ and the joy of evangelizing, a church that goes forth, not hiding or shrinking from challenges, but embracing them in openness and love to all.
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Spend this Advent season with the saints
AdventCommentarySaints

Spend this Advent season with the saints

Bert GhezziDecember 3, 20237 min read
Advent prepares us for Jesus’ coming at Christmas and for his coming into our lives afresh. And no one knows how to get ready to welcome Christ better than the saints.
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Let the warmth of Advent pull the bleak midwinter from you
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Let the warmth of Advent pull the bleak midwinter from you

Effie CaldarolaDecember 2, 20233 min read
Make Advent loving and fun, with your focus on Jesus.
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Unity is impossible? Here’s what a 450-Year-Old, 40-part motet can teach us
AdventArts & CultureCommentary

Unity is impossible? Here’s what a 450-Year-Old, 40-part motet can teach us

Jaymie Stuart WolfeDecember 1, 20234 min read
The richness of 40 distinct voices lifts the soul upward, but also outward.
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Friday abstinence: Getting to the meat of the matter
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Friday abstinence: Getting to the meat of the matter

Emily Stimpson ChapmanNovember 30, 20237 min read
Abstaining from meat is still the U.S. bishops’ stated preference for how Catholics should observe Fridays.
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How do we win the abortion battle? Maybe like this.
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How do we win the abortion battle? Maybe like this.

Greg ErlandsonNovember 30, 20234 min read
What the pro-life movement in general, and unfortunately even the church, has not done is to campaign convincingly for what replaces the “safety net” of abortion in the voters’ minds.
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