As I listened to Juan, I was struck by his capacity for acceptance and fidelity. He wishes that he could receive the sacraments, but that has not led him to resentment towards the church.
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A Prayer for Pope Leo’s Recovery
As Leo faces treatment, give him all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially fortitude.
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What a tourist owes the poor: A theology of Christian mercy
Christ teaches his disciples that it is not our place to judge those asking for help if we are able to give.
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I tried to shield my daughter from grief. Instead, I learned to grieve with her.
I was used to pushing down my grief. I didn’t want my daughter to do the same.
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Cycling for vocations in the birthplace of American Catholicism
Catholics have been talking about the vocations’ shortage for a long time. What I saw in southern Maryland was lots of ordinary Catholics taking responsibility for doing something.
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Dolly Parton, Jimothy the Raccoon and the Christian call to be ‘not normal’
As baptized and professed Christians, we are supposed to be different.
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Fulton Sheen’s beatification ceremony was a model of evangelization for the whole church
Sometimes the best evangelization is not trying to evangelize.
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I was too young to watch Fulton Sheen on TV. But we’re all still benefiting from his witness.
Although Sheen stepped away from television broadcasting in 1968, his message is still being transmitted generations later.
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Fulton Sheen’s beatification: An event as simple as a peasant dress
The beatification of Blessed Fulton Sheen this week in St. Louis was many things—but at bottom, it was just a very nice Christian spiritual event filled with goodness.
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What is lost when a Trappist monastery is sold to a tech billionaire?
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, has purchased St. Benedict’s Monastery in the Elk Mountains, where a group of Trappist monks lived and worked for decades.