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Flipping the Fear about Preaching on Abortion
Early in my work at Priests for Life a woman wrote, “I can’t help but think that if twenty years…
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The Armor of God
When I was a young adult there was a wildly popular book about dressing for career success. It spawned many…
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Emmaus: from Despair to Joy
What a disappointment! They thought they’d found the Messiah. But he’d been trapped like an animal and executed as a…
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May Blossoms, Part Two
The guy sitting next to me in the optometrist’s office bugged me. I mean, he really bugged me. He bugged…
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The Church and the Deficit
For a long time I supposed that social issues — abortion, same-sex marriage, and the rest — were the great…
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U.S.-Pakistan Relations in Decline
Although the execution of Osama bin Laden was mainly a symbolic and psychological act of counterterrorism, its most immediate consequence,…
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Did Somebody Just Make it All Up?
The Gospels tell an incredible story. A virginal conception. Miraculous healings. Even people coming back from the dead. How are…
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May Blossoms, Part One
It already started, you know. The hoopla over Mother’s Day is well underway. In the next several days, the greeting…
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The Fount of Divine Mercy
“I thirst.” In these, the shortest of the last seven words of Christ on the Cross, one sees evidence of…
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The Not-So-Simple Simple Prayer
Did you know that prayer doesn’t mean having to stop everything and getting out a book, or having to come…