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Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

Servant of God Gertrude Barber (1911–2000) dedicated her life to serving children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families. The daughter of Irish immigrants, and one of ten ...

In a wise and important new document, Bishop Olmsted urges fathers and mothers to commit their families to a deeper relationship with Christ. “Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ ...

That is, what we ought to do is based on what we are. “Thou shalt not kill,” for instance, is based on the real value of human life and the need to preserve it. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is ...

“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at ...

There was nothing and no one yet to hear it, only God himself. As animate creatures came into being, they were able to make sounds, and some of them are beautiful, but only human beings have the gift ...

We owe the existence of this celebration on the octave day of Easter to the graced intervention of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, a young Polish religious born in 1905 who belonged to the Congregation ...

“How can there be fairness in one man being maimed for life, suffering agonies, another killed instantaneously, while I get out of it safe?” Pvt. Walter Bromwich wrote to his pastor back in ...

Two lengths of fetters are here fused in a single chain, displayed in a church all its own near the Roman Colosseum. The bonds, according to tradition, once held fast the limbs of St. Peter the ...

And it’s become increasingly difficult, for obvious reasons, since the advent of the Internet—to say nothing of the deep divisions we face at the start of this crazed election year. Or equally deep ...

Perhaps best known for his role as the bearded sage Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films, Guinness was born into a broken family. His mother, Agnes Cuffe, was unmarried. He never knew his father.