Suffering Advent

Suffering Advent

By Dale Ahlquist on Dec 02, 2022 04:00 am
The secular world calls it the Holiday Season. The Catholic Church calls it Advent. The two are starkly different, but the one thing they have [...]
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Is the doctrine of hell a legitimate motivation for evangelization?

By Mark J. Hornbacher on Dec 01, 2022 11:47 pm
Each disciple of Christ is called in some way to participate in the work of redemption. As a Lay Dominican, I take the persons of Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena as guiding lights [...]
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St. John the Baptist, prophet of Advent and preacher of repentance

By Carl E. Olson on Dec 01, 2022 05:20 pm
Readings: • Isa 11:1-10 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 • Rom 15:4-9 • Mt 3:1-12 If you saw John the Baptist preaching on a street corner, what might you think of him? He would [...]
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Reversing the decline of marriage among Catholics

By Russell Shaw on Dec 01, 2022 03:56 pm
These are not the best of times for Catholic marriage in America. Numbers illustrate the point. According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, in 2020—when U.S. Catholic population stood at 73 million—Catholic [...]
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Jihadists seeking to build ‘transcontinental caliphate,’ says report

By Catholic News Agency on Dec 01, 2022 10:00 am
null / Oleg Zabielin via www.shutterstock.com. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA). Islamist terrorist groups are unleashing a new wave of violence and persecution to build a “transnational caliphate” stretching from west Af... [...]
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Synodality and Its Issues

By Francis X. Maier on Nov 30, 2022 10:00 pm
Persons worried about the current “synodality” process in the Catholic Church have good reasons to be anxious. The car wreck of the German Catholic “synodal path” on matters of sexuality and Church governance is one [...]
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To Sanctify the World addresses continuing challenge of interpreting Vatican II

By Eduardo Echeverria on Nov 30, 2022 06:44 pm
George Weigel’s new book To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books, 2022) is a tour de force in its study of the hermeneutics—that is, the manner of interpretation—of the Second [...]
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