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Fasting for Lent and the FaithFULL Food Drive
For as long as I can remember, my mom has given up sweets for both Lent and Advent. As a kid, this struck me as bizarre, but I never asked
Our changing church, from organs to medicine
It is not God but we who fear change. Psychologists have found that even teens, who see themselves as cutting edge, forging into the future unafraid, dislike change, and for
Féile Bride, the ‘Festival of Brigid’
My stepfather is from Armagh, one of the southernmost counties in Northern Ireland on the border with the Republic, and so I spent a few days there this week in
It is a joy to serve the Lord and his people
My name is Sister Bianca Camilleri. I am a Franciscan Missionary Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I reside in Glassboro and belong to St. Bridget’s Parish. I am
The U.N. meeting on anti-Semitism
On Jan. 27 the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps by the Soviet Red Army troops. About 1.5 million people, 1.1 million of them
With Child Number Five, our family became ‘large’
With all the recent discussions in the media that seem to be critical of large families and with an eye toward the World Meeting of Families this coming September, I
The 100th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s birth
I write these words on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton, one of the greatest spiritual writers of the 20th century and a man who had a
Consecrated as a virgin living in the world
On Jan. 21 in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, AnnaMae Muryasz was consecrated to God by Bishop Dennis Sullivan as a virgin living in the world. The
Conversion at the heart of ecumenism, pope says
This year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity concluded with the pope’s traditional pilgrimage to St. Paul’s Outside the Walls to mark the saint’s conversion (which notably does not mention
‘Income stagnation’ and minimum wage
You know you’ve landed on a distant planet when they tell you labor unions are a “special interest” group. Time was when they were thanked for 40-hour weeks, an end
