Columnists
Mary Proffit Kimmel

Constantine: Saint or Sinner?

In the Bible, when the Israelites lose a battle, they ask:  What have we done to offend God?  Who slept with his sister?  Who stole

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Feasts
Fr. Joseph Gill

All Saints Day: One Thing Necessary

You’ve probably seen “clickbait” everywhere on the Internet. For the uninitiated, “clickbait” refers to a headline that is purposely sensational, so that you click on

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Marriage

Many years ago, I was running a faith-formation program for a group of middle school kids. We were working on learning about the Sacrament of

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

Sacramentals: Holy Gifts

The lady on the bus Since watching Touch, my boyfriend has had a habit of reading number plates and, now that he’s Catholic, relating them

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Silence

 Here are four statistics to boggle your mind: –          The average teenage girl sends and receives an average of 4,000 texts

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Prayer
Kat Larson

Powerful Pieta

I have been actively trying to pray more during my breaks at work. The break room is in the basement where no WIFI service can

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Columnists
Fr. Joseph Gill

The Desires of Christ

Recently Reader’s Digest ran a story about an American who traveled to Taiwan for work. On the way to his hotel from the airport, he had to

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Feasts
Fr. Gerald Musa

Saints as Role Models

We have heroes, models, favorite actors, artistes and celebrities. Sports-lovers like to wear clothes and kits that have the autographs of their sport heroes. They

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Religion
Fr. Gerald Musa

Self-Sacrifice

Once upon a time, there was a man who was thrown into prison for publishing a comment about a bad government. His name was Maximilian

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Feasts
Guest Writer

Joachim

Guest post by Br. Gregory Liu, OP. Just a few days ago, I heard about the death of a brother, a Dominican priest, Fr. Joachim

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Columnists
Noel Ethan Tan

Transfiguration

Deuteronomy 7:9-14, Psalm 97, 2 Peter 1:16-19, Mark 9:2-10 The word “transfiguration” comes from Latin roots: trans– (“across”) and figura (“form, shape”). It thus signifies

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Life
Julie Machado

St. John Vianney and the Necessary

My husband and I know a wonderful priest, who we are blessed enough to call our spiritual director/confessor, who has really shown us God’s unconditional

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Columnists
Erin Cain

Eat and Be Satisfied

In the readings for August 5, we saw two different stories of God providing for His people. In the book of Numbers, the Israelites are

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