With the aim of demonstrating how initiation into Christian life impacts the renewal of the Church, the Paraguayan Bishops’ Conference presented the publication “Stories of Light: The Journey and Witness of Christian Initiation in Paraguay.” In the document, by the conference’s National Coordination of Catechesis, catechesis is viewed not merely as a process of formation…
When my eldest daughter was four, we found a gorgeous children’s book at our local library that retold the story of St. George of Merry England from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Every day, she would pour over the pictures of the brave knight, wearing a white robe emblazoned with a red cross, locked in…
Ever reliable, Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., seldom disappoints. This former editor of America magazine, now a featured columnist for the National Catholic Reporter (both lodestars for the Catholic Left) is uncommonly consistent. With steely determination, he has been stretching the Catholic Church into shapes that bear little resemblance to the Church Christ founded. In a…
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U.S. bishops said violence is never the answer after a shooter breached the hotel hosting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C. and injured a Secret Service agent on April 25. Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement, “We are grateful the lives of the…
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[Satan Bound, Pieter Mortier, 1700] I woke up this week with some unexplained scratches on my right shoulder- too far apart to be an animal and I don’t have a cat. “Ahh,” it dawned on me, “it’s demonic.” Mine are very similar to the demonic scratches that one of our team members received about a…
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MYMENSINGH, Bangladesh — In a country where Catholic vocations often emerge from modest rural communities, the quiet influence of lay Catholics can be decisive. For decades, Lobdine Chisim, a lay teacher and catechist from Mariamnagar Parish in Bangladesh’s Diocese of Mymensingh, has been one such influence — helping shape a generation of priests and religious…
