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5.1KSt. Joseph Parish and St. Kevin Parish Merge to form Guardian Angel Parish In Black River Falls
This article was posted on: July 6, 2017
From the angels painted on the ceiling over the altar, to the sweet cherub-like faces of the children attending Mass at St....
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Fifty years of friendship with Cardinal Pell
Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott...
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The summer reading list
I recently met the good people of St. Benedict Elementary School in South Natick, Massachusetts, which offers classical Catholic education to some...
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It’s Howdy Doody Time!
Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily Mass I regularly attend. I’m...
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Way beyond the New Atheist nonsense
Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists”’ popularity. And surely...
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Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later
Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as pictorially. The photo of...
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Can I Donate My Body to Science?
Some people may wish to “donate their body to science” after they die. Such a gift of themselves can be objectively good...
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Resisting Happiness
Book Review Matthew Kelly’s book, Resisting Happiness, is not so much an instruction about how to achieve happiness as it is a...
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Would there be any moral objection to obtaining the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer for my teenager?
Family Matters Accurate information regarding the vaccine is needed to answer this question correctly. In 2006, the Food and Drug Administration approved...
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Jesus loves you this I know, adoration is where you’ll know
Person: “Why don’t I feel anything in adoration?” God: “What, exactly, were you hoping for?” Person: “I don’t know. You and I...