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Yes, You Need to Go to Mass Twice this Weekend — for Sunday and for Christmas

The fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Christmas Eve. That means the faithful must attend two Masses in a row...

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Where Do Ash Wednesday Ashes Come From?

“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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Mother Angelica: A Female Powerhouse in a Supposedly Sexist Church

It was September 1987, and Pope John Paul II had just arrived in Los Angeles after traveling around the United...

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Why A New Consecration to St. Joseph is Spreading Like Wildfire

One of the most prominent people in the life of Jesus Christ, St. Joseph, his foster father, is also one...

A depiction of the Fourteen Holy Helpers from Bavaria, 19th century, restored by Alois Liebwein.

The Fourteen Holy Helpers: Plague Saints for a Time of Coronavirus

While the COVID-19 pandemic has turned life upside down for many people in 2020, it's not the first time the...

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How Natural Family Planning is Spreading in West Africa

In countries throughout Western Africa, the most common religions are Islam and Catholicism. Both of these religions reject the use...

Resurrection of the Flesh, fresco by Luca Signorelli in the San Brizio chapel of Orvieto Cathedral (1499-1502) / Catholic News Agency

Why Christians Believe in Resurrection, Not Reincarnation

Every time Christians recite the Apostles’ Creed, they affirm their belief in what will happen to them after death: “'I...

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Should Catholics Care about Poetry?

Do you remember the last poem you read, or heard?

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What People With Intellectual Disabilities Can Teach Us about Friendship

When French Catholic Jean Vanier brought two men with intellectual disabilities to live with him in his home, he did...

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Are millennial Christians really killing evangelization?

Millennials are notoriously blamed for being killers of previously-thought-necessary industries and activities: Applebees. Napkins. Golf. Mayonnaise. Lunch. And so on.

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Mentors are key in program to get civilly married couples back to Church

When Mary Rose Verret first welcomed Douglas and Elizabeth into her home, Douglas’ boots squished with the sewage he worked...