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People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’
‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice
Our Lady of Good Counsel
On the Feast of St. Mark, April 25, 1467, at the close of a festival in Genazzano, Italy, a cloud descended upon an ancient 5th-century deteriorated church, dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel. When the cloud disappeared, the festive crowd found a small, fragile image of the Blessed Virgin
God’s Fingerprints: The Trinity is Everywhere
The transcendentals are nothing less than a glorious trinity of trinities Many months ago I wrote an article entitled “The Mysteries of Atheism” in which I highlighted the mysterious trinity which all atheists acknowledge albeit without knowing it, or, to be precise, the two trinities that they unknowingly acknowledge, namely
Pilgrim’s Problem
By now I should be entering on the supreme stageOf the whole walk, reserved for the late afternoon.The heat was to be over now; the anxious mountains,The airless valleys and the sun-baked rocks, behind me. Now, or soon now, if all is well, come the majesticRivers of foamless charity that
Arizona House votes to repeal law protecting life from moment of conception
In a 32-28 vote, Arizona legislators passed an “abortion ban repeal” bill designed to overturn an 1864 pro-life law. Republicans have a narrow majority in the Arizona House, but the bill passed because three Republicans joined the Democrats against the pro-life measure. The repeal will now be considered by the Arizona
Supreme Court ‘skeptical’ state abortion bans conflict with federal healthcare law
Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade violate federal healthcare law, though some also questioned the effects on emergency care for pregnant women. The Idaho case under review marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered the implications