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There is probably no pope in all of history -- certainly not in the last 400 some years -- who served so briefly as Bishop of Rome and yet had such an immense impact on the Catholic Church as John XXIII....
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On the 100th anniversary of the beatification Thérèse of Lisieux, a look at how the combative faith of the "Little Flower" can help the Church through the crisis it is experiencing today...
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For a saint, St Philip Neri was remarkably ordinary. One might even say he was extraordinary in his ordinariness. He should therefore both inspire and console us....
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The early Australian Catholic community is famous for its devotion to the Mass, in trying circumstances. Despite the lack of priests and the real difficulties of the early Irish Catholic community, as it emerged from its convict and nascent settler roots, the sacred importance of the Eucharist was...
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We celebrate this year the centenary of one of the best-known texts of the French Jesuit and palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - The Mass on the World, and it was collected successively in two of his works: The Priest and Hymn of the Universe....
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Thinking about Ukraine’s response to Russian aggression in the context of Catholic moral tradition requires a re-reading of Pacem in Terris...
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Pope Francis sends a message to Catholic and Anglican pilgrims who are commemorating the 650th anniversary of the Shewings, or Revelations of the Passion of Christ, of Mother Julian of Norwich....
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Pope Francis announces with Pope Tawadros II that 21 Coptic Orthodox martyrs will be inserted into the Roman Martyrology of the Catholic Church as a sign of the spiritual communion of the two Christian Churches....
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The second half of Michael Sean Winter's review of 'Oxford Handbook of Vatican II', which focusses the event that was the council and the texts that it produced, followed by a brief examination of reception of the Council....