Why might you find yourself praying to your deceased grandmother rather than to Christ? Because in your story she is another Christ, not an alternative Christ.
Saints
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Blessed Carlo Acutis is set to become the first millennial saint. This isn’t the first time the Catholic Church has canonized children.
As a scholar of medieval liturgy and culture, I know that there has been a long history of including children among the saints approved for official recognition and veneration.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Blessed Carlo Acutis watched ‘Pokémon.’ That’s my kind of saint.
Acutis’s beatification is a beacon to all those who live their lives, for better or for worse, increasingly online.
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Teen was ‘influencer for God,’ mother says on eve of son’s beatification
In his exhortation on young people, “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), Pope Francis said Acutis was a role model for young people today who are often tempted by the traps of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure.”
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Colorado observes its first Cabrini Day, named for patron saint of immigrants
Popularly known as Mother Cabrini, the saint is revered for her devotion to children, immigrants and the destitute.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
It is never too late to meet the Lord in prayer
Never presume that you are one of the early hires and that Jesus offers his parable only to curb your jealousy of late arrivals. No, we all come so late in the day.
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St. Damien’s relatives speak up against criticism of his statue in U.S. Capitol
The family members pointed out that the “final Hawaiian choice for Damien in 1965 was very thorough, with the widest possible popular support.”
Posted inLetters, Magazine
Letters to the Editor: September
Letters on discerning out of religious life, Julian of Norwich and Catholic schools in the time of coronavirus.
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What does it mean when we say the Assumption of Mary is a miracle?
We use the words “mystery” and “miracle” not to say that science has been stumped but rather to express the expansive claim that an event makes upon us.
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Blessed Stanley Rother’s Oklahoma roots
How a state with just 3 percent Catholics shaped the first U.S.-born martyr to be beatified by the Catholic Church