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19-Year-Old’s Dream Continued by Dominican Sisters
As the sun sends red and blue hues through the stained-glass windows into a convent chapel in the Chicago area,…
Browsing: Learn & Live the Faith
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The Meaning of Mercy (Part I)
The Second Vatican Council taught us that the Eucharist is the “source and summit” of the Christian life. Yet we…
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Overcoming the Merely Therapeutic: Human Excellence and the Moral Life
In Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005), researchers Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton argue that for…
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3-Minute Retreat: Called to Greater Freedom
The brief reflection below is based on a 3-Minute Lenten retreat brought to you by Loyola Press. At the bottom…
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City of Blood: St. Paul in Arabia — A Lenten/Desert Journey, Part 2
For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia —Galatians 4:25. In the Scriptures, the desert is the setting for purification, and…
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The Historical Reality of the Muslim Conquests
Because it is now almost axiomatic for American school textbooks to whitewash all things Islamic (see here for example), it…
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Consolations
Do you know what it means to receive a consolation from the Lord? In the work of prayer for example,…
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Why is Lent Forty Days?
In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.” The word comes from the “lengthening” of daylight…
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Lenten Meditation: He Hath Made Him to be Sin for Us
Over the centuries, Christian artists have produced innumerable portrayals of the Lord’s crucifixion, but none so terrible as Matthias Grunewald’s…
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Rome in Lent: Like a Mist
A quiet time in Rome, the end of February. A time of silence. This evening in a completely empty and…