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The Monastic Edge on Caring for the Sick

The Monastic Edge on Caring for the Sick

The most striking way I have seen the Church with the sick is in the person of P...

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The Time Has Come for Easter Union

The Time Has Come for Easter Union

On November 29, 2025, on the eve of the Feast of St. Andrew, Ecumenical Patriarc...

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Why Fast?

Why Fast?

In the daily lectionary readings recently, we heard the prophet Isaiah explain t...

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Weekly Goals for Lent

Weekly Goals for Lent

Our liturgical year’s first slice of Ordinary Time has given way to the great se...

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Pope at Angelus: This Lent, make your life a unique masterpiece

Pope at Angelus: This Lent, make your life a unique mas...

During his Sunday Angelus address on this first Sunday of Lent, Pope Leo XIV say...

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Pope Leo: Peace is urgently needed, requiring responsible decisions

Pope Leo: Peace is urgently needed, requiring responsib...

After the Angelus prayer, the Pope strongly renewed his appeal for the silencing...

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Pope to Salesians: Continue your service in areas of poverty and war

Pope to Salesians: Continue your service in areas of po...

After celebrating Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Castr...

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The suspended lives of Ukrainian refugees

The suspended lives of Ukrainian refugees

Four years into the conflict, around ten million Ukrainians live away from their...

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Lenten Retreat Preacher opens Spiritual Exercises in the Vatican

Lenten Retreat Preacher opens Spiritual Exercises in th...

The Lenten Spiritual Exercises for Pope Leo XIV, Cardinals residing in Rome, and...

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Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Purified by God’s Grace & Personal Effort

Salesian Spirituality for Lent: Purified by God’s Grace...

Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four...

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What Helps Us Choose Between Two Goods?

What Helps Us Choose Between Two Goods?

There are many times in our lives when we must make decisions between competing ...

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Fall in the Garden, Victory in the Desert: First Sunday of Lent

Fall in the Garden, Victory in the Desert: First Sunday...

Jesus faces God’s enemy and ours, the one who has hated us from the beginning. G...

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When a Tantrum Isn’t a Tantrum: Responding to Childhood Meltdowns with Grace

When a Tantrum Isn’t a Tantrum: Responding to Childhood...

I didn’t have a child abuse accusation on my bingo card that morning, but it sho...

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The Pattern of Temptations and How to Overcome Them

The Pattern of Temptations and How to Overcome Them

As we begin Lent, Christ’s three temptations in the desert give us the pattern b...

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Our sin and the burden of a world that is in flames

Our sin and the burden of a world that is in flames

Our Editorial Director reflects on Pope Leo XIV’s homily at Mass on Ash Wednesda...

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Pope to Legionaries of Christ: Religious authority is service, not domination

Pope to Legionaries of Christ: Religious authority is s...

Meeting with the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ, Pope Leo XIV says...