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Recently I was at a young adult gathering and the topic of celibacy was on the forefront of many people’s minds since it has been covered in the press regarding the Amazon synod and the document …
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By FATHER CHRISTOPHER ARGANO
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3/11/20
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There comes a moment when something clicks. At a book club or a Bible study. In a carpool circle or a coffee shop. A connection is made, and a gathering turns into a group, taking on a life of its …
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By CHRISTINA CAPECCHI
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3/11/20
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El título de esta columna está tomado de la expresión del papa Francisco en su homilía durante la misa del Miércoles de Ceniza 2020. La Cuaresma—nos dice el Papa—“no es el tiempo para …
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Por PADRE LORENZO ATO
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3/11/20
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Two weeks ago, Ash Wednesday, February 26, I celebrated evening Mass at Our Lady of Victory Parish down in the financial district. The Church was full, the choir superb, the Eucharist reverent and …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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3/11/20
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In the mid-1990s, a gifted Newsday reporter named Bob Keeler won a Pulitzer Prize for an in-depth series of articles about St. Brigid’s parish in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Back then, I …
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By JOHN WOODS
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2/28/20
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Jeffrey Adams, a college seminarian, was eager to learn everything …
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By FATHER BOB PAGLIARI, C.Ss.R., Ph.D.
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2/28/20
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Everyone has his or her own story. Our history, family, faith, environment—all of it combines to create a background story that runs through …
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By MARY DeTURRIS POUST
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2/26/20
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On the elevator at work one day, I chatted with a woman who was the only other person onboard. Both of us remarked that we were looking forward to …
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By CLAUDIA McDONNELL
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2/26/20
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Seventy-five years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way into the Third Reich when they discovered the Auschwitz-Birkenau …
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By GEORGE WEIGEL
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2/26/20
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In his book “What is Art?” Leo Tolstoy wrote, “The business of art lies just in this,—to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and …
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By GARAN SANTICOLA
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2/26/20
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Remember!
A loaded word in our vocabulary, one laden with substance.
Chatting with people my own age—I just turned seventy—and beyond, I often hear them whisper with apprehension, …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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2/26/20
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El 12 de febrero de 2020 se publicó la Exhortación Apostólica “Querida Amazonía” del papa Francisco. El documento era muy esperado después de la realización del Sínodo sobre la Amazonía …
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Por PADRE LORENZO ATO
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2/26/20
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¡Recuerda!
Una palabra abundante en nuestro vocabulario, una llena de sustancia.
Conversando con personas de mi edad – acabo de cumplir setenta - y más allá, a menudo …
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Por CARDINAL TIMOTHY M. DOLAN
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2/26/20
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Elizabeth Guevara de Gonzalez, who was recently named director of the archdiocesan Office of Adult Faith Formation, is seeking to continue expanding awareness of her office and its programs among …
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By JOHN WOODS
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2/12/20
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A few weeks ago I was finishing a three-year program for spiritual direction at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Ill. Since this was a course focused on spirituality much of our time was …
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By FATHER CHRISTOPHER ARGANO
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2/12/20
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On a pedestal in the entryway of Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine art gallery sits a circa 1490 woodcarving entitled Christ on the Cold Stone. The artist is unknown, but it is attributed to the Brabant …
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By GARAN SANTICOLA
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2/12/20
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This column actually comes to you from Cuba!
Before you jump to conclusions, let me be clear: I’m not here on the beach, although the weather is bright and the ocean magnificent.
I came …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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2/12/20
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El término ‘inculturación’ hay que entenderlo desde la analogía con el término ‘encarnación’. De hecho, el fundamento mismo de la inculturación es el misterio de la encarnación del …
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Por PADRE LORENZO ATO
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2/12/20
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You never know who you are going to encounter when you start making your way into a crowd, especially when it’s as big as the one in Washington, D.C., last Friday, Jan. 24, for the 47th annual …
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By JOHN WOODS
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1/29/20
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Does what we wear to church matter?
I’ve been thinking about that ever since I recently read a couple of letters to the editor in Catholic New York that raised the issue. One letter focused on …
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By CLAUDIA McDONNELL
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1/29/20
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