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Maribel comes home
I was 28 years old and living in Austin, Texas, when I got the news: I was going to have a foster...
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On our need for the real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film, A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s impossible to imagine such...
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Rural Life 2016
“Care for the earth is a holy thing,” noted Bishop William P. Callahan at St. Joseph parish in Menomonie on October 7...
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Gloucester fisherman, American veteran, Polish benefactor
Two weeks before Veterans Day, 88-year old World War II vet Curtis Dagley of Gloucester, Massachusetts, was decorated by the Republic...
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Orphans in Liquid Nitrogen
Some humanitarian tragedies occur quietly and “in the background,” only gradually coming to light years or decades after serious harm has already...
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Regis High School to host Veterans Day program
Event being planned in conjunction with the Eau Claire Patriotic Council WHAT: Regis High School is preparing to host one of Eau...
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Catholicism embodied: “The Pivotal Players”
Looking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich...
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Those Catholic WikiLeaks
At the risk of causing cardiac distress or cerebral incidents among the bloggers of the Catholic Left, let me begin by...
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How do I talk to friends about faith when we disagree?
When I was a novice, one of my formators was a Schoenstatt Sister who was a physicist. She was — and still...
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Singing the sacred Scriptures: The processional chants of the Mass
Hymns have a centuries-old tradition in the Roman Rite — but not in the Mass itself. Rather, the Liturgy of the Hours...