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Lebanese students discover a smile is a two-way street
… to the poor is an experience a group of Lebanese 10th graders will long remember about this Lent. As Mission of Life Sr. Lina Maria Dib prepared the students for their first outreach, she … I wouldn't be exposed to this. I want to serve more and to help more. And not just during Lent, but always." …
At border Mass, bishops call for compassion, immigration reform
… U.S. and Mexico for years. Among them are annual processions for the Way of the Cross during Lent and Las Posadas, the Christmas season re-enactment of the search for lodging by Mary and …
Hobby Lobby's Green family meets with Pope Francis
… the Green Collection have been on display in Vatican City. Their first display appeared during Lent and Easter season in 2012, but Pope Benedict XVI was traveling during the Greens' visit. …
Millions of refugees with no place to call home
… rights" and that "the effective recognition of these rights be guaranteed to refugees." During Lent, when we are called to remember the poor in a special way, we would do well to remember that …
To see as God sees
… early Christian heretics named Matthew, Luke and John." CEL_Mar302014.jpg … Fourth Sunday of Lent … 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 Nowhere is such "heresy" …
Augustinian priest: Teaching that women are not like Jesus is 'heretical'
… between Boston College and Fordham University, wrote a similar letter at the beginning of Lent 2012. In it, he sought "a clear and credible" theological explanation for the exclusion of …
Taking a new approach to the Bible this Lent
… Renée Schafer Horton … Lent is not my favorite time of the liturgical year. I've always been more of an Advent person … some of my fellow Catholics' actual joy during the 40 days preceding Easter. Call me a Lent weakling. This year, however, I took up a challenge offered by Christian author and speaker Margaret Feinberg to read the New Testament straight through during Lent. I've read the Bible before but never this way. It has given me a purpose during these 40 …
We need to be convinced that God is always in our midst
… in some way. We wonder, Is God really with us? How could this have happened? … Third Sunday of Lent … Exodus 17:3-7 Psalms 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-42 Full text of the …
Add basketball to Catholic colleges' springtime rituals
… thoughts of systematic theology and Sunday morning Mass. At many Catholic institutions, Lent, with its tradition of self-discipline, is just one springtime ritual in the long march …
Choosing nonviolence over war
… how much we spend weapons and operations, and I'll have more blogs on that topic during this Lent, but the other side of the coin, which we never look at, is whether war is an effective …