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“It’s important to preserve this sense of wonder,” she says. And in the way she says it, I understand that it is not a platitude. It is a discipline. A daily choice....
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Nobody is excluded from the hope to be saved who, even after a life soiled by graver sins, brings forth worthy fruits of penance....
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One “meme” video showed Pope Leo XIV in papal finery. His Holiness declared that “woke” meant waking up to others’ suffering and that Christians should speak out in the face of injustice....
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One of the last remaining enclosed monastic communities has accepted its newest member in a ceremony at the community’s new home in Kurmond, west of Sydney. The Tyburn community of nuns, otherwise known as the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre, welcomed Sr M. Juliana at a solemn ceremony of Temporary Profession on 17 January, in front of her family and friends. The...
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We look to Jesus as the way, the truth and the light, the one who shows us the way not only to the Father but also to a moral life....
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With disarming authenticity, Cercas not only bares his soul as a writer and as a person, telling us about his mother and his metaphysical anguish, which literature can only partially calm, but also gives us a subtle and admiring portrait of Pope Francis....
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The history of granting indulgences is not without its shadows and disedifying aspects. The Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, continues, despite criticism, to clarify its doctrine, purify its practice and invite the faithful to approach this experience of “the manifold grace of God” (1 Pet 4:10)....
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How Pope Francis taught and lived the beatitudes....
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Those who go on pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Hope will personally put into practice all three aspects mentioned above: the jubilee; the pilgrimage; hope itself. But because all are so central to Christian life even those of us who remain at home can become pilgrims of...