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“I’ve made it.” In a moment of self-reflection, have you ever looked around at your life—all that you’ve done, all that you have, and all that the future holds—and realized that you were on a mountain?
No one, no matter how powerful, can control how we feel or what we think of ourselves. And yet even the weakest words from the weakest people often do just that, even to adults.
Guilty by association. While a concept that does not stand up in a court of law, we know that it is a very powerful force in the court of public opinion. When someone does something bad, the moral character of everyone around them is called into question.
A delicious meal, a beautiful symphony, a hot shower. With five senses and billions of nerves, there are an infinite number of ways to experience pleasure from the world around us.
The Eucharist cannot exist in isolation from life.
The word season has many meanings, and each tells us something about what Lent can and should mean for us.
The most unsettling feature of violent video games is that they allow the player, regardless of age, to become the main character of the games—vicious, brutal tendencies and all.
I cannot find any passage in the Gospels where Jesus condemns slavery. Have I missed something?
I like what I read in St. Anthony Messenger and enjoy other products from Franciscan Media. One question keeps coming back to me: Are you Franciscan or Roman Catholic?
I ask this because these days I feel much closer to the Franciscans than to the Roman Catholic Church in which I was baptized and yet is plagued by many terrible scandals.
Carlo Acutis, the millennial teenager whose story has impacted countless people all around the world, will soon be canonized by the Catholic Church.
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