In difficult times, it is tempting to say, “Thankful for what?” But the message of the Resurrection is that hope is stronger than despair.
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The power of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is the world’s largest organized prayer group and advances a threefold mission: to promote devotion to the Sacred Heart, prayer for the pope’s intentions and spiritual communion with Christ in the daily offering of one’s life for the salvation of the world.
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I found the heart of Christmas in the remains of an old English cathedral
The Coventry Cathedral is the birthplace of a Christmas carol featured on the latest season of “Hark!”—America Media’s podcast on the stories behind our favorite Christmas carols.
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The Mass is a constant. But we experience it differently over time.
If Catholics can accept the imperfections of the humans running Mass, they are likely to keep going.
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Pope Leo (and The Beatles) are right: Money can’t buy us love.
The people we meet as we go about God’s work are more important and more life-changing than any amount of money we could donate.
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JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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How a secular pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago helped me grieve in public
The Camino, I came to realize, was more than a hike. It was a container for grief, for the notes, the photos, the names written on scallop shells, the mementos of loved ones.
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The saints aren’t flawless—and that should give us hope.
Dorothy Day once told me, “When they call you a saint it means that you are not to be taken seriously.” Yet she took saints extremely seriously.
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Archbishop Etienne: the ‘simple yet demanding’ work of peacebuilding in a nuclear-armed world
There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.”
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We brought the fears of migrants in the U.S. to Pope Leo—and returned home with renewed hope.
When Pope Leo shook our hands, he looked into our faces—brown, weary, hopeful—overcome with tears of joy and hope; he saw the church that walks with the poor, the church that refuses to be silent. His kind gesture lifted the U.S. Latino community when we needed it most.