Commentary

Find extraordinary in the ordinary

We can encounter God in the awesome majesty of a mountaintop sunrise or a scrunched bouquet of dandelion’s in a child’s fist.
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One more benefit of Catholic schools

Catholic Schools Week always serves as a time to reflect upon the many gifts that those institutions give us: a solid education, a deeper faith and lasting friendships.
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Emulate God, work together

There is divinity flowing though us all the time. We just have to believe that. And then winter will turn to spring. 
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A month of purification

May februum, the month of February, be the beginning of that deep purification that will renew and beautify the temple of the church.
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New York, abortion and a short route to chaos

Abandoning the convictions of one’s conscience in the exercise of one’s public duties is precisely equivalent to “I’m personally opposed but unwilling to take concrete action to instantiate my opposition.”
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Rite of betrothal/ Praying for Pope Benedict

Father Doyle fields questions about the Rite of Betrothal and praying for Pope Benedict XVI at Mass.
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One man’s meat

Learning to speak and write clearly is essential to success in all the disciplines that young people are flocking to these days.
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Recovering intimacy in a lonely world

Rather than "Thou shalt not" as its battle cry, the church can offer a genuinely positive vision of "the joy of love," a holistic understanding of sex and intimacy for a society increasingly despairing about both.
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Talking to some young Jesuits about social justice and evangelization

I told my young Jesuit conversation partners that they ought to follow the prompt of our Jesuit pope and go not just to the economic margins but to the “existential margins”—that is to say, to those who have lost the faith, lost any contact with God, who have not heard the Good News.
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Mary ever-virgin/Memorial Mass for Protestant?

Father Doyle fields questions about the Blessed Virgin Mary's virginity and offering Mass for non-Catholics.
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A new year, a fresh start

A lot of the typical resolutions have more to do with our exterior than our interior. I’d like to suggest a few resolutions that might improve your spirit and your mind.
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Greeting New Year with trust and hope

We step into the New Year with faith that each of us can help make the world a little better.
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