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Backwash in the Chalice?

by Scott Smith March 19, 2013

One of the sweetest ladies I know asked me a question the other day that had been bothering her for a very long time. It was one of those questions that you don’t exactly know how to ask—much less, who…

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To Walk, To Build, To Witness, Always with the Cross

by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet March 19, 2013

This early in the papacy of Pope Francis, every tiny detail, every response, every move is fodder for analysis and discussion, as professional and amateur pundits alike tell us what every turn of phrase or newly emerging biographical detail will…

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Medicare: Did You Really Pay for That?

by Dr. Mark Hendrickson March 18, 2013

Last summer, Barack Obama riled a lot of entrepreneurs when he got carried away at a campaign event and told any American who had built up a successful enterprise, “you didn’t build that.” An even greater backlash awaits any politician…

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Hindus Take Revenge Against Muslims

by Michael Cook March 18, 2013

One of the most easily grasped ethical obligations of a doctor is not to incite people to mass murder. An Indian gynaecologist who ran a maternity home in Gujarat has joined a select group of medicos who have had a …

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This Sunday’s Gospel : See, He Makes All Things New

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. March 15, 2013

It really looked like the end of the road for her.  Caught in the act of a capital crime, her fate lay in the hands of an angry mob.  Desiring to kill two birds with one stone, the rabble decided…

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Keeping Quiet for Lent

by Dan Lord March 15, 2013

It’s 2013, and if I want to hear music I don’t have to be deprived for a single split-second.  I just pop in one of the 400 CDs I own. After an entire morning of one CD after the other,…

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We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets

by John Moore March 14, 2013

Kevin Power’s book, The Yellow Birds, is his first novel and one of the best written accounts of the life of a Soldier in combat that I have read since coming to the Army nearly 35 years ago.  It is…

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Constantine and the Birth of Religious Tolerance

by Vincenzina Santoro March 13, 2013

In the midst of the activities surrounding the Papal resignation and speculation on the next choice for the Chair of St Peter, a very important anniversary has gone virtually unnoticed. In February 313 AD, in the reign of Pope St.…

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Undoing Our Addictions During Lent

by Sarah Babbs March 13, 2013

I weigh less now, at 29 years old, than I did in 7th grade, when my nickname was “Sarah the Whale”. My weight has been a battle for most of my life. I was a cute, chubby kid when I…

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The Power of HIS Presence

by Judith Costello March 13, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI wrote an Apostolic Exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis, to remind all of us that “every great reform has in some way been linked to the rediscovery of the…Lord’s Eucharistic presence among His people.’” He urged us to recognize that…

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