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Pope Francis forms Child Protection Task Force


Q&A: Denver Deacon Rob Lanciotti, former CDC virologist, shares coronavirus tips...


How to do the math magic trick that will impress everyone you know...


Terese Piccola describes what it’s like to be possessed and experience exorcism...


Non-verbal autistic child denied Holy Communion: Some lessons...
Fr. Matthew Schneider
Earlier this week a non-verbal autistic child was denied registration for First Communion at a parish in New Jersey. Now the story has exploded in the media. I saw the post early & decided to post a general prayer petition on my page, while messaging the family offering to be a kind of mediator. At that point, the post only had a few hundred shares compared to 10...


Are these 3 temptations among the worst of our times?
Fr. Patrick Briscoe
The great English Dominican friar, Bede Jarrett, once gave a series of Lenten conferences based on the theme “Here we have no abiding city” (Hebrews 13:14). Jarrett explained, “If you are traveling, the whole secret of a happy journey is to remember always that you are a traveler.” The temptation, of course, is to try to settle down in this life...


Let them have Lent...
David Mills
The title — “Don’t use Lent to try to impress God” — headlined the newsletter from a good Catholic site. The article was as dispiritingly earnest as you’d guess, and a bit passive-aggressive too. Like so many of its companions in the genre, the article rolled out the clichés as if they were revelations. You can’t impress God...


Making the Impossible possible: Can Catholics eat fake ‘meat’ during Lent?
Clemente Lisi
Ash Wednesday ushers the start of Lent, a six-week period where Christians prepare for Easter through prayer and reflection. For Catholics, the season also involves fasting on certain days and abstaining from meat on Fridays. The tradition, which started in the early church, is something that Catholics, and many Christians in general...


‘Slight’ sickness keeps Pope Francis close to home, Vatican says...


70 meat-free fast food meals for Lent...


The disappearing sound of Solari boards, those clickety-clack departure signs seen in old airports and train stations...


Something is stirring in England. It’s still just a mustard seed, but the restoration has begun...
Joseph Pearce
Something is stirring in England. It’s not much. A still, small voice of calm whispering in the dark. Prayers ascending like incense. A rekindled faith. No, it’s not much. Merely a mustard seed. It won’t be noticed by most people. It will go unheeded by the dead men milling around satanically in what remains of England’s once green and pleasant land...


Words matter: CNN backs one side in latest debates about the U.S. Senate born-alive bill...
Terry Mattingly
Year after year, debates about abortion continue to raise questions about ethics, politics, morality and science — as well as arguments about language and style in journalism. The latest, of course, focuses on the legal status of a baby that is born accidentally — perhaps during a botched abortion — as opposed to being delivered intentionally...


Explaining the Pope’s soft touch on the survival of Middle Eastern Christianity...
John Allen
Say “Christianity” and “Middle East” to people who’ve been paying attention to events in the region, the and next word that would automatically come to mind for most probably would be “extinction.” By now, the statistics on the collapse of the Christian population in the Middle East are wearily familiar. The situation is worse in the war-torn nations of Iraq and Syria...


How Tolkien nearly translated the entire Jerusalem Bible...


The urgent theme of Ash Wednesday...


God and the vanguard of atheism...


It’s time to bring our Eucharistic Lord to the battlefield...

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What to do if you think you have COVID-19...


An answer to the question, “Why does the Catholic Church hate gay people?”...


A cure for coronavirus: Pray to two saints who miraculously defeated plagues...


Listen: The sound of the Hagia Sophia, more than 500 years ago...


Finding Jesus in Lent — and the Vanier scandal...
Kathryn Jean Lopez
For anyone who had paid attention to his writing and ministry with people with intellectual disabilities, the recent revelations that well-respected philosopher and founder of the L’Arche movement Jean Vanier had used his position to manipulate and abuse women who went to him for spiritual direction is heart-piercing. I, for one...


Repent and take responsibility...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Every year in Lent I’m reminded of how healthy repentance is. The default setting for the human being is to blame someone else. “He did it first!” or “She did it too!” or “Everybody does it” or when we’re unhappy to blame somebody else for our problems. “It’s my wife, my husband, my kids, my parents, the president...


Hadi Khosroshahi, former Iranian ambassador to Holy See, dies one day after testing positive for coronavirus...


The cross is the measure of the love of Jesus Christ...


From equality indexes to SOGI laws, the LGBTQ movement marches on...


On the battle theme of Lent...
Msgr. Charles Pope
A brief observation of the first two days in Lent reveals militaristic, even violent imagery in the battle against sin and the unruly passions of the flesh. The Collect (opening prayer) of Ash Wednesday provides an image of troops mustering for battle: Grant, O Lord, that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service...


Why are boys failing? Because this experiment has failed...
Anthony Esolen
When he was 13 years old, a mere boy was effectively the American ambassador to Russia, in Saint Petersburg. This was because the lad was fluent in French while his nominal superior, the ambassador himself, was not. The boy had already, at his father’s instruction, translated works of Plutarch from Greek and poems by Horace from Latin...


“Even in the Church, we have let so much dust collect...”...
Rocco Palmo
As these 40 Days begin again – and with them, the biggest crowds of the year converge in most places – a fruitful and Blessed Lent to one and all. While the Pope gave a practical guide to living the season well at this morning's weekly Audience, per immemorial custom, this Ash Wednesday's principal rite doesn't come until evening with the penitential procession on the Avventine Hill and Mass at the basilica of Santa Sabina...


“Adulting” through Lent...
Mary Jo Gerd
Somehow, it is both shocking and no big surprise that the term “adulting” has worked its way into our cultural lexicon. We collectively commend someone when he dutifully takes on the responsibility assigned to his stage in life. “Yay for you, Gary! You’re paying off your college loans on time.” Yet, as creatures accustomed to so much comfort and ease we will often do whatever it takes to avoid facing difficult but necessary challenges of growth...


“Shall these bones live?”...
Sean Fitzpatrick
Every Catholic just loves Ash Wednesday, just as every Catholic just loves Lent. Those were my thoughts as I slipped out of church, my brow smeared with that stark Catholic smudge. Passing the young priest in the vestibule where he stood greeting parishioners, I said ironically, “Happy Lent, Father.” He arrested me—and my sarcasm—with a fervent response...


Ash Wednesday: ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return’...


Pete Buttigieg helps 9-year-old boy come out as gay at Denver rally...


A teaching on desire, from St. Augustine...


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