In the weeks after Easter, the Church’s lectionary turns our attention in a special way to the Acts of the Apostles, which recount the continuing drama of the early Church in the wake of the resurrection. Usually the lectionary...
Read MoreI thought it more than a little strange when one of my teachers at Notre Dame confessed that she regularly read the obituaries in the local newspaper, often before anything else. It was an indulgence in her “maudlin Irish...
Read MoreThis Friday marks the fourth installment of the “Faithful Citizenship Friday” series focusing on the 2007 USCCB document Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (FC). Jana kicked off the series with a very clear summary of...
Read MoreThe summit of the liturgical year is now upon us, as we celebrate the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord. This year’s Gospel reading for Easter Sunday is from John, and as is often the case with the fourth gospel, it is...
Read MoreA recent piece at National Review Online by Dorinda Borlee, Nicholas Nikas and Mark Rienzi brings into the light a very alarming new wrinkle associated with the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable...
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