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Editor’s note: This post was originally published on February 6, 2015. Fr. Bonaventure Chapman was ordained to the priesthood in May 2017 and now serves as the assistant chaplain and adjunct p...
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Reading outside the strictures of academia is one of the joys of the Christmas break. I like to go to Barnes and Noble and pick out a book that has been influential in the last six months and �...
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Do you ever skip the introductory pages of a book you are reading? If so, STOP IT! You could miss one of the best parts, the epigraph. You know, that short quotation which the author has careful...
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Lying in the dentist’s chair last week with all those weird instruments in my mouth got me thinking how similar this experience is to confession. Seriously, they’re basically the same thing....
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Editor’s note: This is the second in a five-part series on Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, in honor of the Holy Father’s first visit to the United States, occurring next week. “...
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“April showers bring May flowers.” You remember that little rhyme, don’t you? Growing up in Buffalo meant that sometimes these showers were of the snowy variety, but those flowers did spri...
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St. Dominic and St. Francis have been called “Brothers from Different Mothers.” While biologically correct, I would nuance this for two reasons. First, their brotherhood is a supernatural on...
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Thanks to secularization, modern people easily forget the true meaning of Christian words. Take, for instance, the saints we celebrate today: St. Paul Miki and his companions were martyred in 15...
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Tomorrow is the day that every child (young and old!) has been waiting for: Christmas. We keep vigil on this Eve of the Nativity and anxiously await the celebration of Christ’s first coming in...
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This is the first in a four-part series on St. Thomas and Catholic Social Teaching. Thomistic Reflections on the Common Good Prayers of the Faithful, especially around election times, often incl...
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I often find myself in dialogue and discussion with atheists about the existence of God, the nature of human persons, the knowability and viability of the natural law, among other Catholic philo...
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