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Front Row With Francis: The Date of Your Baptism
At his first General Audience of 2014, Pope Francis gave the faithful in attendance a homework assignment. “Who among you…
Monthly Archives: March, 2014
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Squeezing Lemons
Our flight had taken off from Phoenix and we were happily heading west to Los Angeles. The animated chatter of…
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Hillary Clinton Says Women Cannot Progress Without Reproductive Rights
Twenty years after the Clintons failed to get countries to declare a right to abortion, Mrs. Clinton told a posh…
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Politics and the Pulpit, Part Three: Churches are Automatically Tax Exempt by Law
It’s an election year again, and unless we’re careful, we can easily be misled by vague assertions about “the dangers…
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Forgive One Another
The readings for today stress God’s powerful gift of forgiveness and his demand that we share this forgiveness with others.…
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Poem: “Interlude”
Interlude Something about the half-lit space invites silence. Sacred and calm. Sunlight, muted through treated windows, still manages to splash…
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Lenten Reflection: What Is Salvation?
Shortly before his martyrdom, St. Paul penned a letter to his friend Timothy. The great apostle seems to have known…
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All I Could Do Was Pray
The air was cold, the moon full, the wind biting as I stood in the backyard waiting for the dogs…
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St. Michael, Defend Us in Battle
On September 29, 2008, the Feast of the Archangels, Human Life International launched its Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer Campaign…
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All You Have to Do is Ask
“Ask and you shall receive. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you” (Matthew…