Religion
Fr. Joseph Gill

The Joy Is Worth the Cost

Some people are atheists because they don’t believe in God. Other people are atheists because they don’t want to believe in God. If someone has

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Lent and Love

What is the point of the Lenten sacrifices [1]? Why do we fast on some days, abstain from meat on others, and then also give

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Dating
Cristina Montes

Romantic Thoughts for Ash Wednesday

“Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied.” — T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Can Catholics celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, considering that

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Columnists
Matthew Tyson

Getting the Eucharist

Roughly six months after my conversion, I had what I like to think of as my first real “revelation” surrounding Church teaching—specifically the Eucharist. I

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Columnists
Jean Elizabeth Seah

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was prefigured in the sacrifices of the Old Testament, which had polyvalent significance. Animal and plant sacrifices were used

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Religion
Fr. Gerald Musa

Self-Sacrifice

Once upon a time, there was a man who was thrown into prison for publishing a comment about a bad government. His name was Maximilian

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Feasts
Fr. Joseph Gill

The Mission Ad Gentes

In the early 1900s, a group of French missionary priests called the White Fathers (so-called because of their white habits) began mission work in French

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Columnists
Fr. Joseph Gill

Called to Be Holy

A few years ago, I spent a week in Fatima on pilgrimage. It was beautiful to be there in such a holy place, where you

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Scripture
Fr. Gerald Musa

The Road to Glory

Glory is attractive, but the cross is repulsive; we love to arrive at a destination called glory, but we often reject the narrow and thorny

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Health & Fitness
Kat Larson

What Do You Wish For?

I have been falling from grace recently. My life has not been going the way I had anticipated. To make matters worse, I have given

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Sacraments
Nick Chui

Is Virtual Mass Sufficient?

Is virtual Mass and attendance physically the same? Are they simply different ways of praying? If you can’t sing at Mass and mingle with others,

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Movies
Marion Sarte

James Bond Goes to Church

Imagine seeing James Bond at church… Yes, it was hard for me too. A man with a license to kill and promiscuous lifestyle is the

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Life
Fr. Joseph Gill

Living Sacrifice

A British World War II fighter pilot named Vivian Rosewarne, having successfully flown many missions, was still always amazed at the grandeur of the earth

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Theater
Kat Larson

Hamilton

When I was growing up, I developed a vivid imagination. It was sparked by several stories that literally animated my childhood, mainly fairy tales that

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Books
Fanny Jean Jones

Samwise Gamgee

“Unless you are like little children, you shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” This is a well-known quote, yet very few people put it

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Religion
Fr. Joseph Gill

Death to Self

People often ask me, “Why do priests wear black?” If I’m feeling sarcastic, I usually respond with something like, “It makes us look thinner” or

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Men's Issues
Guest Writer

Masculinity

By Marcus Leong, a writer at Clarifying Catholicism. In my first semester in the United States after coming from Malaysia, I remember realizing how I

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