The Holy Father’s German gamble failed. He led with an open hand and got a clenched fist in return.
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John Polkinghorne was a pioneer in quantum physics before resigning his academic post in 1979 to study for the Anglican priesthood.
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The English martyr, whose feast day is today, built ‘priest holes’ to protect persecuted clergy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Why not decide this year to make St. Joseph’s feast a holy day of obligation? It would be a fitting legacy of the Year of St. Joseph.
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Now that Canada’s legislators have got the medicine out of our suicide regime, it’s time to get the medical profession out, too.
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After Blessed Pius IX proclaimed St. Joseph the “Patron of the Universal Church” in 1870, his successors have turned their attention to St. Joseph in their own particular way.
From the outset there has been something strange with the Vatican’s non-rollout of the Year of St. Joseph. And it is creating another unnecessary controversy.
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Consumers are constantly demanding ethically sourced products, except when those ethical concerns are raised by Catholics.
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The wedding(s) of Meghan and Harry cause confusion on at least three important points.
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The eighth anniversary of Pope Francis’ election brought a completely unexpected and wholly unnecessary controversy.
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The papal response to this question, as first answered by Benedict and then by Francis as shown during his visit to Iraq, indicates both continuity in substance and a difference in style.
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When media subject certain personalities to rigorous fact-checking, but extend a credulous courtesy to the Sussexes, it is a clear double standard.
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Meghan had no idea what she was getting into and Harry was too clueless or too careless to do anything about it
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Duffin was fascinated, as a scientist and atheist, that the Vatican gave such enormous weight to her medical opinion.
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Papal travel is no longer remarkable. But Iraq is a first.
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A specific dimension of the Holy Father’s visit will lift up the figure of Abraham, which Pope St. John Paul II planned to do 21 years earlier.
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Lincoln and Douglas established that the Union would be preserved not only by force of arms, but by, as much as was possible, a unifying spirit.
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Genesis gives us clues that strife does not have the final word among siblings.
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