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With the passing of Pentecost, the Church returns, in a sense, to business as usual. The fifty-day celebration that is the Easter season has come to a close, and we are back to Ordinary Time. Bu...

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My grandfather passed away suddenly when I was only five years old. Knowing my parents, I must have seen a lot of him as an infant, but we had been living in Germany for three years when the tra...

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Throughout her history the Church has witnessed the countless ways that God has called men and women to become saints. In his youth, and against the will of his family, St. Thomas Aquinas chose ...

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One week until Christmas. Decorations are everywhere. Shopping is shifting from hurried to frantic. There are preparations for travel and guests, for parties and feasts. The expectation is palpa...

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Editor’s note: This post is dedicated to Fr. Sylvester Willoughby, O.P., a much beloved friar of the Dominican House of Studies. At the time of publication, Fr. Willoughby is gravely ill and c...

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Over the summer I was living in St. Dominic Priory in Washington, DC, while doing hospital ministry across town. Since I could not stay around for the community Mass, I would catch one of the pa...

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I figured it would come up eventually, but it took until the end of the very last class. I had wrapped things up, giving a few tips about the final and a reminder about the optional review sessi...

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There is something proper about being astounded and in awe of a mystery, but there is something dangerous about being embarrassed by it. Sometimes it seems like we drift too close to the second ...

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On June 20th, 2013, Giovanni Giudici, the Bishop of Pavia, pronounced the cure of Danila Castelli to be miraculous, 24 years after her pilgrimage to Lourdes. Her cure, and the 68 other cures pro...

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I had never heard the phrase until I spent some time visiting a hospice center, and it always struck me as incongruous. While everyone in their care was dying from one thing or another, they ref...

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