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Anthony: The Hammer of Heretics

June 9, 2024

Anthony traveled tirelessly in both northern Italy and southern France, choosing to enter the cities where the heretics were strongest.

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Desire God Only

June 7, 2024
As strange as it sounds, I don’t believe our world has much desire left in it.
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Love Pours Forth

June 6, 2024
When I once preached on the wedding feast at Cana, I suggested that the six stone jars had a moral interpretation: six ways to purify the soul.
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The Place You Call Holy

June 5, 2024
Forget your cell, your cave, your place of prayer and be where you are—and in no other place.
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Antonia Salzano Acutis, mother of Blessed Carlo Acutis, prays in the shrine dedicated to her son at St. Dominic Church in Brick, N.J., Oct. 1, 2023, the day it was dedicated by Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton, N.J. Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first "millennial" to become a saint. (OSV News photo/Mike Ehrmann, Diocese of Trenton)

His lifelong dream was to be a saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis’ mother says

May 29, 2024
While many Catholics around the world rejoiced upon hearing the news that Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo Acutis, none was happier than his mother, Antonia Salzano.
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Dear Reader: ‘Peace to This House’ 

May 24, 2024
Francis of Assisi had rather specific instructions for how his brothers should go about their lives.
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I’d Like to Say: We Need to Stop ‘Othering’

May 24, 2024
The time-honored practice of othering those who differ from us is eating away at our Christian call to love one another. 
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