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Father Esposito: Mary, mother of every beloved disciple

Thursday, May 5, 20220139 Mary is never named in the Gospel of John. In the only scenes featuring her, the beloved disciple refers to her simply as “the mother of Jesus.” Those two episodes...

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Father Bayer: Faith in Medicine

Monday, April 25, 2022019 Our world needs Christian faith. A book that proved this to me regarding the medical field is Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental...

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Father Dankasa: Focusing on the spirituality of service

Friday, April 8, 20220122 Many of us want to grow in holiness and draw closer to God. Our perception of our personal holiness or closeness to God often revolves around how many prayers we say,...

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Father Esposito: The plea of an atheist for biblical beauty

Thursday, April 7, 20220118 The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, declared in a book of prose that “the Scriptures constitute the common good of...

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Father Olvera: Faith and fitness through ministry

Tuesday, March 29, 2022092 By Father Ignacio Olvera Special to The Texas Catholic What happens when a priest walks into a bar? With the will of God, anything it seems. A few years ago...

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Father Bayer: Wilderness and the Dynamics of Conversion

Monday, March 28, 202205 This Lent I’m studying the “wilderness” or “desert” in Scripture, and especially in the journey of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land. The dangerous wild...

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Father Esposito: Exile and home in the human condition

Sunday, March 13, 20220382 A curious pattern of exile is evident in the endings of several Old Testament books. After God promises Abram the land of Canaan, the patriarch must immediately flee to...

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Father Dankasa: 'I don't believe in Lent...'

Friday, March 11, 20220231 I want you to know how much I believe in and love Lent, and I want you to know how much I wish that no one would say “I don’t believe in Lent.”

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Father Bayer: But what is diversity anyway?

Thursday, February 24, 2022035 One of the shibboleths of our times is the word diversity. Our use of the word can easily signal our social, political and philosophical sympathies. It is ubiquitous in...

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