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Happy Feast of Our Lady of #Lourdes! Do you know the story of Our Lady appearing to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858? It's a beautiful story of Mary appearing to
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Thread: In Poland, where homophobia is rampant, LGBT people are on trial for "desecrating" a copy of the Black Madonna. But Mary is for everyone, including LGBT people, and there
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Gospel: On the Feast of the #HolyFamily, remember that in many respects, Jesus, Mary and Joseph lived the life that most families do: earning a living, keeping the home, cooking,
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Dear friends: Let's be honest: This is a strange #Christmas , maybe the strangest any of us have ever experienced. Most of us are far from our homes, far from
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Why do so many virulently anti-LGBT public figures, both clergy and lay, turn out to be gay? Why are so many of the most vociferous moral watchdogs revealed as less
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Tomorrow the long-awaited Vatican report on the former Cardinal Theodore #McCarrick (now Mr. McCarrick) and his crimes of abuse will be released. It will dominate conversation in the US church
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Message to Catholics: Neither a bishop, nor a priest, nor a sister, nor anyone, can or should tell you how to vote. They can point out important issues, but how
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Gospel: "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God," says Jesus (Mt
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Gospel: "Why do you speak to the crowd in parables?"ask the disciples (Mt 13). Jesus says that some will not understand the parables. One NT scholar told me that Jesus
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Thread: This article is highly misleading. The "Catholic Church" didn't "cash in," to quote one of the subheads in this report. There are hundreds of individual Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools
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White Jesus thread: Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting,
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At a time when transgender students need support and inclusion, they are met with hatred and exclusion. In some Catholic schools, these young people, often bullied by their peers, rejected
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