Focus
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Pope to release new book for children
Jan 21, 2016
Pope Francis is set to release a new children’s book in February, entitled Love before the World.
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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Jan 14, 2016
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an international Christian ecumenical observance kept annually between 18 January and 25 January.
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The path to living mercifully
Jan 14, 2016
Hunger as a byproduct of war and conflict all too often helps to drive individuals and families out of their homelands and into unfamiliar, unfriendly territories where they rediscover themselves as homeless, lost refugees.
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Conflating Christianity and Islam is an absurd response to terrorist atrocities
Jan 12, 2016
The first anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks in Paris has thrown up some commentary that has generated more heat than light.
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When right-to-die becomes duty-to-die: the chilling case of euthanasia in Belgium
Jan 11, 2016
The concept of “thin end of the wedge” is a standard one in moral argument.
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How to survive January, the secular season of penitence
Jan 11, 2016
January can be a penitential season like a compulsory Lent.
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Why can't Catholic couples write their own vows? This bishop explains.
Jan 10, 2016
The president of the Filipino bishops' conference has explained that couples are unable to write their own wedding vows because in the sacrament of marriage, it is Christ himself who is acting through the husband and wife.
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Why one bishop is putting tabernacles back in the center of churches
Jan 09, 2016
When Bishop Robert Morlino arrived as the new bishop for the Diocese of Madison, Wis. in 2003, he began quietly encouraging priests to promote more reverence towards the Blessed Sacrament – through more adoration, more reverent Masses, and moving tabernacles back to the center of churches.
Sunday Reflection
From mere productivity to wholehearted fruitfulness
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with the Editor