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“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” is not the only Advent song out there.
Renisha Malik carries incense in the opening procession of a Feb. 26 service celebrating the annual African-American Heritage Month at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)
The story of the church, in the United States—past, present and future—is the story of black Catholics.

He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. (Jn 1:8)

Because we moderns cannot recognize sin, we have to do more than urge people to reject it.
The Washington, D.C., transit agency cites rules against what it calls the  “promotion” of religion on its buses, (iStock/RiverNorthPhotography)
The Washington Metro cited its guidelines against religious ads in preventing the image of a group of shepherds from running on city buses.
A pilgrim from India holds her baby in front of a painting of the Mary and the Christ Child in the grotto of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)
The church has pre-Cana programs for marriage, but is it falling short in giving couples spiritual preparation for parenthood?

‘May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.’ (Mk 13:36)

‘One mightier than I is coming after me.’ (Mk 1:7)

As a Catholic, you continually search for the balance in your professional and spiritual life. Whatever balance you do achieve is far from perfect.
Image: Wikimedia Commons/Elsa Dorfman
Gerald T. Cobb
“It was no great surprise that Lowell threw himself into Catholicism and took his Catholicism to a psychotic extreme.”