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The response of the Church and individual Catholics to the devastating explosion in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, one month ago has been impressive and heartwarming.
The prayers, the expressions of …
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9/9/20
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Attending Mass involves a lot of coordination and preparation. It doesn’t begin when we arrive at church, but a good amount of time beforehand. I can well imagine the hectic schedules of …
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By Bishop Gerardo J. Colacicco
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9/9/20
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An upstate New York church recently asked me if I would do a Zoom talk for their parish book club, which had just finished reading “Walking Together,” my 2010 book on spiritual friendship. They …
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By MARY DeTURRIS POUST
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9/9/20
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For the last three years I have had the great gift of celebrating Mass every Monday morning for the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal. For the first two years I would go to Our Lady of Guadalupe …
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By FATHER CHRISTOPHER ARGANO
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9/9/20
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the joy of visiting Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Benedicta and St. Mary of the Assumption parish on Staten Island. It was a rainy Friday evening, and Father Hernan, the …
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By Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
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9/9/20
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“A nadie deban nada más que el amor” (Rm 13, 8)
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l filósofo E. Kant decía que todo lo que hacemos, para que tenga un sentido ético, debe …
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Por PADRE LORENZO ATO
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9/9/20
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One of my respected professors in graduate school taught a course called general semantics. Although the title may sound frivolous, the topics he covered were actually quite profound. This discipline …
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By FATHER BOB PAGLIARI, C.Ss.R., Ph.D.
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9/1/20
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As we approach the end of summer 2020, we in New York are in a situation that was unimaginable when we rang in the New Year eight months ago.
Stay-at-home orders, mandatory masks in public, social …
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8/26/20
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In the three weeks since the devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, which leveled entire sections of the city, officials of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) here in their …
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By John Woods
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8/26/20
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Sobrevivirá, una, santa, Católica y Iglesia Apostólica?
Esa es una pregunta que muchos, tanto dentro como fuera de la Iglesia Madre, se proyectan.
Hace un par de …
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POR CARDINAL TIMOTHY M. DOLAN
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8/26/20
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La Pontificia Academia para la Vida (organismo de la Iglesia Católica fundado por el papa san Juan Pablo II en el año 1998), ha publicado el 22 de julio del presente año 2020 un documento titulado …
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Por PADRE LORENZO ATO
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8/26/20
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Since we believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, how we receive Him, how we reverence His presence among us, matters a great deal. First and foremost, we receive Him in a state of …
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By Bishop Gerardo J. Colacicco
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8/26/20
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As a fellow Catholic, I would like to share a thought with you. We believe in the life hereafter, and those who achieve it are called saints. How many millions of American saints might there be in …
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8/13/20
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Throughout the liturgical year the Church sets aside the months of May and October to have a specific focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary. This makes sense as May is a month with Mother’s Day and the …
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By FATHER CHRISTOPHER ARGANO
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8/12/20
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Re: “Attacks on Church Statues Seen as Sign of Society in Need of Healing” (CNY, July 30).
Attacks on statues can be attributed to a number of reasons; most were directed at historical …
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8/12/20
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The four young women who took a step forward to the novitiate of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal at an investiture ceremony Aug. 2 are seeking “an ever-deepening relationship with God” as …
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By John Woods
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8/12/20
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Chiara, 15, walked into our family room after a socially distanced bike ride with a friend and wisely observed that just a couple of months ago wearing a mask seemed like such a burden, an unusual …
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By MARY DeTURRIS POUST
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8/12/20
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Is the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church going to survive?
That’s a question many, both inside and outside Mother Church, are posing.
A couple days ago, I was enjoying one of my …
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By Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
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8/12/20
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First in a series of four articles
A reflection on the place of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the lives of the faithful as we move forward during this time of …
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By Bishop Gerardo J. Colacicco
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8/12/20
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Fifteen years after Richard Louv’s bestseller “The Last Child in the Woods” was published, it is more relevant than ever. I’m fascinated by his insights on the “naturedeficit disorder” …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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8/12/20
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