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Finding what unites the church beyond our disagreements
… all in all, we get along. We have to. We help each other out with confessions in Advent and Lent. Occasionally, we even go to confession to each other. We fill in for the odd funeral when …
Canadian church’s aid agency puts fall campaign on hold
… basically two times a year -- one in the fall with the education campaign and then the Share Lent or ShareLife in [the Toronto archdiocese]," said the Jesuit seminarian, who is studying for … of Lourdes in downtown Toronto. "Without those bookends, really there's not much to do until Lent." The appearance that the bishops are divided or opposed to Development and Peace has become …
Pondering a 'rising tide' of threats to religious freedom
… that's aroused deep tensions between Islam and the West. In both cases, the global situation lent significance that the trip would otherwise have lacked. In the abstract, papal outings to …
Journal from England and Scotland (Part 1)
… the Yorkshire Dales. There, the Sisters of the Cross and Passion run a retreat center. They've lent me their guest house at the edge of the property for a few days of rest and holiday. Simon …
At St. Mary, one man was custodian of all of us
… he was one of them; the RCIA candidates he had sponsored; schoolchildren who looked forward to Lent, as it would be preceded by his raucous, bead-throwing Mardi Gras celebrations -- they all …
The verdict in Philadelphia
… is still great, still rich in mercy to those who truly repent. The church must endure a long Lent. The number of cases of child abuse has declined, to be sure. But the full reckoning is not …
Doesn't anybody around here know how to run a church?
… problems exist, the bishop says, that would bar its reconciliation with Rome. This statement "lent support to the belief ... that Pope Benedict XVI will soon approve a canonical agreement …
Bishop says war kills religion, freedom, conscience
… the new war outright. In a March 7, 2003, pastoral letter to his people at the start of Lent, he bluntly called the pre-emptive invasion immoral. "Any direct participation and support …
Editorial: Bishops overreach in HHS conflict
… which had no chance of becoming law and were roundly defeated. Because the bills they lent support to were so partisan in nature, the bishops’ religious liberty efforts were forever …
School leader: Mexican American Catholic College's charism in peace and justice
… in Mexico and how it's impacting the people he loves on both sides of the border. During Lent last year, MACC memorialized the 30,000 killed in Mexico in the drug and anti-drug war by …