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Retired Imperial Valley Police Chief Spreads Devotion
“I do it because it's a blessing,” Madueño said. “I never regret it. I love it.”
How Catholics Are Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving
With lockdowns and all kinds of restrictions all across the state of California, Catholics in the El Centro and Brawley area are finding ways to creatively bring family together and keep the faith for Thanksgiving.
JP2 Radio readies for new decade
IMPERIAL VALLEY –It happens every morning. With the turn of a key or push of a button a car engine fires on, mechanical parts begin whirring...and you turn on your radio.
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On Needing a Why Before We Die
The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.—T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets What do you say to someone who is about to die? Is there some
Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin
April 18 commemorates the feast of Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin, a Canadian woman whose life was a story of obedience in the face of personal setbacks.Esther Blondin was born in 1809 to a pious, French-Canadian farm family in southern Quebec. When she was old enough, she began to work as a
Catholics: Out of practice or obsolete?
Ken Woodward: You’ve titled your book Why Religion Went Obsolete. What’s the difference between “decline” and “obsolete”? Christian Smith: It’s not just a matter of numerical decline. I’m trying to make a claim about its cultural significance; not just numbers, but the place of traditional religion in larger American culture,
Vindicating John’s Gospel
A team of archaeologists excavating beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher has announced a new finding: ancient pollen and other botanical evidence indicating a garden had been there two thousand years ago. The finding corroborates John’s account of Jesus’s passion and death: “Now in the place where he was
The Passion
Since blood is fittest, Lord, to writeThy sorrows in, and bloody fight;My heart hath store; write there, where inOne box doth lie both ink and sin: That when sin spies so many foes,Thy whips, thy nails, thy wounds, thy woes,All come to lodge there, sin may say,No room for me,
Antoni Gaudi, ‘God’s architect,’ is on the path to sainthood
A decree from the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, approved by Pope Francis, is paving the way for the canonization of the architect Antoni Gaudi. Earlier this week the Vatican confirmed that Gaudi had been decreed “venerable” in recognition of his “heroic virtues.” Known as “God’s architect,” Gaudi is