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• Power Up For Lent

  Less than a month before Ash Wednesday Pope Benedict XVI has called on Catholics to get into social media Post on Facebook. Send a tweet. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Great Ever-Present Reality

  

  FATHER ANSELM MOYNIHAN, O.P. “Lo! You were Somebody all of a sudden.” In this line of his Magnificat, Paul Claudel (the poet) describes the grace which, at the... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Man for This Season, and All Seasons

  

  by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. A day after the 2012 Summer Olympics closed in London, Joseph Pearce wrote that he felt like his “body had been... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Causes of Violence in America

  

  by Stephen M. Krason The airwaves and the opinion columns continue to discuss the terrible December 14 school massacre in Connecticut and have brought us... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• If You Want Justice, Work for Chastity

  

  By Gregory R. Beabout (Catholic Answers Magazine) At the height of the counterculture of the late 1960s and the flower-power desire for peace, Pope Paul VI... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Loss of the Innocents

  

  By ROSS DOUTHAT (from The New York Times Sunday Review) NEWTOWN, Conn., is about 20 miles from the town where my wife grew up. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Advent and Self-Denial

  

  BLESSED JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Rise up then in the morning with the purpose that (please God) the day shall not pass without its self-denial. . . . Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Renewing the Church and Her Mission in a Year of Faith

  

  THE MOST REVEREND CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. CAP The first point is where we are as a Church and as individual Catholics, given the current environment of our... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Pope Says Jesus Was Born Years Earlier Than Thought

  By Nick Squires, Rome The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• How God Makes a Pencil

  

  by Joe Carter on the Acton Institute Power Blog In 1958, Leonard Read published his brilliant essay, “I, Pencil.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute recently... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Life in the ‘Kingdom of Whatever’

  

  by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. CAP. The Reformation unintentionally undid the medieval synthesis of faith and reason. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Responding to Common Pro-choice Arguments

  

  Short reflections on pro-choice statements (non-exhaustive list) “It’s not a baby until it’s born.” Scientists tell us that human life begins at fertilization. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Statement of the Pennsylvania Catholic Bishops on the 2012 Elections

  

  (NOVEMBER 1, 2012) – Each year on this day the Catholic Church celebrates “All Saints Day.” This solemnity remembers those who have fulfilled their earthly... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Return to Rome, Five Years Later

  

  Former sedevacantist nuns reflect on their joyful return to the Church and on their lives in a thriving new religious community. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Msgr. Ricci Parish Marks 25 Years, and Still Growing

  

  BY LOU BALDWIN Parish names always have a reason. Maybe it is for the patron saint of the founding pastor’s mother, or of a bishop or the Pope, or any one of th... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• There is Only One King

  

  There is Only One KingThere is Only One King by Steve Weidenkopf “For faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Heart of Faithful Citizenship

  

  by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. Public witness on issues of public concern is natural for Catholics because we have a commitment to the common... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Welcome to the Year of Faith

  

  by Jeff Cavins “The ‘door of faith’ (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• My Favorite Prayer

  

  FATHER ROBERT SPITZER, S.J. The prayer I’ve probably spoke about most frequently is: “Thy will be done.” I’ve found that this prayer brings God’s peace and... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• ‘We Have No King but Caesar:’ Some Thoughts on Catholic Faith and Public Life

  

  By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. A priest I know does a lot of spiritual direction. Two of the men he was helping died suddenly this past year,... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY