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The beginning of Acts 2 reads like a breathless passage from a Hollywood screenplay: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in ...

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Easter is a liturgical time when we celebrate the Resurrection of the One who "makes all things new" and anticipate the descent of the Holy ...

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, ...

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For many Catholics, the mystery involved with receiving Holy Communion remains a distant reality. The language that the Church uses to define the mystery of the ...

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Politically speaking, what's up with young evangelicals? Evangelicals are 26 percent of the U.S. population, a quarter of them under 30, and, as the ...

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I can still remember the feeling of numbness that hit me when I hung up the phone one afternoon last September. I’d been slated to ...

For two and a half years I was a Jesuit, living religious life and experiencing what it was like to be part of the Church in more of a public capacity. I had many opportunities ...

You'll be amazed at how quickly the time passes between graduation day and packing the car to leave for college. Make the most of the short ...

Whether it's a refresher course or an introduction, each of the "Sacraments 101" videos gives you the basics about some aspect of one of the sacraments of the Catholic Church -- in just a few ...

In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar with ...

I love to talk about birth. A lot. I assume everyone wants to hear about birth, so at social gatherings, with people I've hardly met, I find ...

When I came into the Catholic Church ten years ago, there were a number of things I was a ...

One of the first and key places I encountered the spiritual ideas that eventually led to my baptism was Estes Park, high in the Rockies, ...