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  Don’t let this Laudato Si’ moment pass

  Mar 18, 2016

  “There are extraordinary possibilities in Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ On Care for Our Common Home,” said Columban Father Sean McDonagh who had written a commentary with a similar title.

  
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  Food for Thought

  Mar 18, 2016

  There's a lot about the season of Lent that mirrors nature, at least for those of us who live in places where we experience four distinct seasons.

  
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  Lent lessons from St Francis

  Mar 18, 2016

  t seems to me that St. Francis of Assisi could well be named the patron saint of this year's Lent, in which many are looking to incorporate the calling of the pope's "Laudato Si'" encyclical into their 40-day journey of penitence and conversion.

  
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  All things speak of God: Spirituality in our time

  Mar 18, 2016

  "God wants to be in relationship with us," a Trappist monk named Father Paul says to Anne, a central figure in "The Abbey," Jesuit Father James Martin's recently published first novel.

  
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  Issues of moderation and extremism in Islam

  Mar 11, 2016

  Naturally, the initial years in Mecca were the times when the religion was being gradually revealed and being solidified.

  
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  Food for Thought

  Mar 10, 2016

  In "Called to Ecological Conversion," a 2011 document for the Catholic Theological Union, Franciscan Sister Dawn M. Nothwehr wrote that "most North American Christians have lost ... intimacy with the created world.

  
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  Making room for ecological conversion this Lent

  Mar 10, 2016

  The world's vast deserts enjoy a reputation as arid, harsh, inhospitable places. Nonetheless, millions of people rather happily inhabit desert regions.

  
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  A conversion of heart for the planet’s sake

  Mar 10, 2016

  During Lent, Christians examine their conscience to consider the steps they can take to change their lives to better follow Jesus.

  
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  Patriarch Kirill with Pope Francis

  Mar 04, 2016

  After almost a thousand years that have failed to bring about any meeting between the head of the Catholic Church and the head of Russian Orthodox Chu

  
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  Religious and theological underpinning of Global Islamist Terror

  Mar 04, 2016

  There is no way a community, much less a global community like Muslims, can live all by itself, wallowing in its own backward thoughts, nursing its own victimhood.