If God is looking for you, he is not going to find you in something less than yourself, in a book you interpret.
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Catholics love relics. So where are Mary’s bones?
The absence of Mary’s bones is a telling historical anomaly, but the theological insight that accompanies it is perhaps more meaningful.
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Catholics: It’s not our job to divide the world between good and evil
Good and evil exist, and they compel us to choose. But the task of sifting them ultimately belongs to our Lord.
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Meeting God (and others) in the storm shelter
A Homily for the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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For the love of God, pick up a book
A homily on how the “end of reading” has profound implications for our society—and for the church, too.
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The Odyssey, the Gospel and the hard choices we must make
The “Odyssey” reminds us that the world resounds with siren calls. Can we hear the summons home to God?
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What JD Vance’s conversion can teach us about the parable of the wheat and weeds
JD Vance’s new memoir perfectly illustrates that it’s the company we keep, the soil in which we choose to implant ourselves, that truly matters.
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Does the Word have seasons?
The difference between words received indifferently and words received efficaciously is what our faith calls grace.
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God doesn’t need our humility. We need God’s.
God does not require or seek our abasement.
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God provides for those whom he calls
It is still not easy, but we cannot allow our anxieties to drown out the call of the Lord.