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Vatican Radio editor Stefan von Kempis and Catholic World News editor Phil Lawler collaborated on this beautiful, insightful new book...

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49. So the Church teaches that marriage, more so than any other such as motherhood, brotherhood, or anything-otherhood, is intended to...

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When we are spiritually weak, God often uses gentle means to draw us to Himself – aware that anything harsher would drive us off....

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ROME, FEB. 11, (XPI News)  Only hours after the news that Pope Benedict XVI would be taking the nearly unprecedented step of...

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This election was not a defeat but a catastrophe. We on the Christian Right had hoped to save the natural law for our fellow Americans....

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One of the best popular theologians today, Father Robert Barron, wrote a highly useful piece at Catholic News Agency last week on a topic...

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Bad Advice from Franz

As I warned when I started my considerations of the Seven Deadly Sins and opposing Virtues, there will be a test. Seven of them, in fact,...

Bad Advice from Rayne

Efficiency has always run a distant second to fun among Catholics. During the Middle Ages, almost one-fourth of the days on the calendar...

Bad Advice from Rayne

Brigid M. writes in:Dear Rayne,I’ve been reading about you and Franz for years, and I must say I admire your patience in putting...

Bad Advice from Franz

Patrick M. writes: Dear Franz,My fiancée, Rosanna, group up with only sisters, and she hasn’t dated a lot—her dad is a beefy...

Bad Advice

When we are spiritually weak, God often uses gentle means to draw us to Himself – aware that anything harsher would drive us off....

Bad Writing

Bad Writing

Theologians of divine providence such as Jean-Pierre de Caussade have speculated that the permissive will of God allows great evils to...

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This is the kind of article one writes with Kinky Friedman blasting in the background, and that’s how it is meant to be read....

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The racial reference that forced Geraldine Ferraro to leave the Clinton campaign and fly off on her broom brings back for me bittersweet...

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May 1: Filling the May Hole Here we have another delightfully convoluted holiday: It began as a pagan fertility feast, both among the...

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Imagine a world where a brave array of new technologies has proliferated to meet our human needs by taming nature — yielding a vast...

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