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Time to Take the Knee

Canceling God, empty churches, and worsening outlook. Enough! This one trick could turn it around.

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Holy Week: Spy Wednesday (Audio)

Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ. 

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Holy Week: Holy Tuesday (Audio)

Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.

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Holy Week: Holy Monday (Audio)

Meditations and Spiritual Readings for each day of Holy Week compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ.

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Holy Week: Palm Sunday (Audio)

Audio for the Little Book for Holy Week, meditations and spiritual readings compiled by Fr. Richard F. Clarke SJ

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We’re Not Getting the Message

The transfiguration calls us to belief, yet the continued discussion of transformation says one thing: We’re Not Getting the Message

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BFP Women Priests? “No Jesuit Sources, please,” says China

The solution to women priests; Women Priests, Inclusive Language was from the US Bishops (ICEL); Selecting Pronouns; Nat. Cath Reporter is the epitome of all insanity; Fordham University advertising to women priests; announcements; China wants to stop the destruction of their young boys; and, China appears to have removed the role of the Pope in selecting bishops for China… “No Jesuit Source, please”. and why AMDG?

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Dust

“Do you think the Lord is trying to tell us something?” my husband asked after we heard about power outages in Texas and winter storms from the Gulf to Maine. Meanwhile we in the Northern Plains “warmed up” to   -18F in time for morning coffee. I’m surprised hellfires hadn’t resumed in California. “If He is,” I…

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Ash Wednesday 2021: The One Thing that Gets People to Run to Church, and they Ruin It

Tell me any other day of the year that has no obligation to attend Mass that gets as high an attendance as Ash Wednesday? The success of Ash Wednesday to create favorable desire to go to Church should be lauded, right? So popular is it, that other denominations have been imitating it and having their…

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On Being Catholic – Your Way

The problem with the Catholic Bishops endorsing President Biden while Biden supports and endorses abortion is caused by the cafeteria Catholicism now generations old. A refusal to teach the faith to the past generations has led to a reluctance to choose the faith today, let alone follow it. The blind lead the blind in search of feelings and declare their truth as if it were the Catholic Faith.

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