Education. Arts. Charity.
(And the greatest of these is charity).
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80 Years Since the Normandy Invasions
by Brett Manero. Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, occurred eight decades ago on June 6, 1944 AD. It is truly amazing that numerous survivors of the Normandy landings are still with us in 2024 AD. Eighty years later, they represent the last of the Greatest Generation, a generation which, as my father told me…
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
By Katie Purple “Holy Spirit, who are You?” I’ve found myself asking this question a lot lately, desiring a very simple answer to all the complexities of life, and as I stare out at the breeze gently teasing the tree branches on this Pentecost Sunday afternoon, I am reminded of the number of times that…
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Unexpected Love
A guest post by Theo Hafner-Evangelisti. “Can you help me out, sir? Can you spare some change?”Last summer I attended a conference on 8th Street, in southeast Washington, DC. Afterwards, as I was returning to my car in the sweltering noon day heat, I came upon a woman panhandling for money in front of a…
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Meditations on Forgiveness
This is a guest post by J. M. M. Wahl. While this article may, at times, come across as largely theoretical and abstract, when I wrote it, the issue had never felt more fresh and relevant, as I had been struggling with the idea of forgiveness for some months, and just in the last week…
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Spring Reflections, Part II
I wrote in a previous post about my deep appreciation of the arrival of spring. All around us, signs of Resurrection are near: the warmer air, the budding leaves, and as I likewise noted, the significant drop in cynicism that we tend to see at the beginning of the spring season. And yet, for anyone…
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The Church as the Third Temple, Part I
“Salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22). Jesus Christ makes this truth clear in the Gospel of John, as He famously converses with the Samaritan woman at the well. Like much of John’s Gospel, there are scenes contained in the Fourth Gospel that are not present in the three Synoptics, this scene being one of…
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Spring Reflections
Spring is here and with it, Resurrection. It is of course fitting that the Church (in the northern hemisphere anyway) celebrates Easter during the beginning of the spring season. All around us we see life, revival, even in the images of nature. Animals are returning from their hibernation, and the cynicism of people seems to…
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The Science of Catholicism
We live in a time in history where science has become, in a sense, a religion. I have noticed a growing tendency for people to say, “it is science!,” implying that a scientific truth can be trusted with absolute certainty. At least in the Western world, the pursuit of science has increasingly taken the place…
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