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Taking a Deep Breath
In light of the apparent scandals washing over the Church, readers should peruse and ponder this critical assessment of the recent Pennsylvania Report, which seems, from the objective analysis of Bill Donohue, president of...
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The Gift of a Consecrated Life
We need some good news stories, and I was witness to one yesterday, as Sister Margaret Mary MacGrath of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate made her final profession of vows in a beautiful...
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The Fragility of Bridges and Covenants
As I was leaving Rome, watching out the window of the da Vinci airport, after five days of hot, sunny weather, the rain began bucketing down. It must have been almost exactly that time...
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The Message of Mary
A blessed and joyful solemnity of the Assumption, the greatest of the feasts of Our Lady, commemorating her entrance into heaven, body and soul, âat the end of her earthly lifeâ, as the 1950...
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San Lorenzo in Roma
A blessed feast of Saint Lawrence to all our readers, the third century martyr whose quite literally legendary life echoes through the ages, his generosity, his sense of humour (bringing the 'poor' to the...
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Transfiguration and Conversion
A blessed feast of theTransfiguration to all our readers, which finds me newly arrived in the historic town of Canterbury, made famous by Augustine (the English one, not African), Thomas a Becket and Chaucer, amongst...
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Walsingham: England’s Marian Shrine and Hope
Norfolk, in south-eastern England, remained staunchly Catholic during the âreformatoryâ troubles begun by Henry VIII. The Dukes of Norfolk held fast to the Faith through the travails the the Tudors, Henry and his daughter...
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The Point of It All
There have been two tragic and public suicides in the news of late, which I have picked up on these pilgrimage travels, praying for the souls of the departed: Oksana Shochka, a member both...
