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FaithFaith in Focus
Most converts I know have an elevator speech on why they became Catholic. My Catholicism just sort of “happened.”
FaithFaith in Focus
All journalists should be humble because we are so often wrong.
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The liturgies of Lent and Easter, like the churches themselves, are built upon the conviction that the resurrection changes everything.
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Jesus understands not only our bodily suffering, but also our spiritual suffering, in these feelings of abandonment. He was like us in all things, except sin. And he experienced all that we did.
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Some three months before Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module and left his footprints upon the surface of the moon in July, 1969, and uttered those immortal words about it being but “one small step for man” and yet “a giant leap for mankind,” a young, brown-haired, freckle-faced boy in the northwest Bronx had not a few momentous steps of his own to make: With hands clasped in front of him, he slowly, quietly, shyly and solemnly made his way up the aisle of St. Nicholas of Tolentine—his parish church—to kneel at the altar rail.
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The lesson I take from Jesus’ washing of the feet is this: I do not decide which lives have value and dignity; God does.