As the World Cup continues to draw international attention, we might stop to ponder how God works for our good in all things, even sports.
In All Things
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Associated Press Issues Correction Based on America Query
After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and
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Must Iraq Disintegrate Before We Get News?
It was heartbreaking on June 12 to hear Mohammed Al Dulaimy an Iraqi reporter for McClatchy Newspapers speak on ldquo Democracy Now rdquo nbsp As Mosul a city of two million falls to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS and Iraqi soldiers drop their arms and flee we hear that the mi
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The Galway Horror Part II
ldquo Babies born inside the institutions were denied baptism and if they died from the illness and disease rife in such facilities also denied a Christian burial rdquo It is a sentence unattributed to any source which repeats mdash either word for word or in a close approximation mdash in hu
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My Catholic Ireland
It rsquo s always a strange experience to read about home while abroad mdash seeing my own country scrutinized from the outside and recognizing my pride and shame compete as my sense of self is shaped by that scrutiny As an Irishman I travelled to the United States with a sense of entitlement to t
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Walking with My Father
Among our many family photographs there is one of me as a toddler beginning to take tentative first steps I am reaching out my hand to my father who is beside me looking down at me with some concern ready to grasp mine I am dressed in a light-blue winter outfit with the hood pulled up over my
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The Flag, Mr. Adams and Charlie
In order that his Most Sovereign Majesty King George III his ministers and his army of Redcoats would become aware of something significant arising among the nations a plain-spoken farmer-lawyer from Braintree Massachusetts stood up among the delegates of the Continental Congress and offered th
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Christians Face New Turmoil in Iraq
It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were but two days ago they did Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL apparently at the time only lightly armed swept through Mosul Iraq rsquo s second largest city
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Cantor’s Fall: Blame Immigration or Ambition?
Immigration worries are back in the headlines after a sudden flurry of media attention to what has been a slowly building humanitarian catastrophe the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors reaching the U S southern border some as young as 5 and 6 after a perilous crossing through Mexico fro
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Catholic, Orthodox Bishops Push of Married Priests
Top Catholic and Orthodox church officials in North America are calling on the Vatican to let married men become priests in Eastern rite Catholic churches another sign that optional celibacy could become a front-burner issue under Pope Francis Eastern rite Catholic churches have a look and feel sim