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For many years now, I have gradually and quietly become what you may call “spiritually independent.” I’m now in my early seventies, and my personal faith practice is now beyond “religion.” To put it ...

In the light of the Resurrection, we as a local Church must unswervingly understand our vocation as disciples of hope …’ ...

For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church ... Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: 'The victim is one and the same: the same ...

The Church of Christ represented in these ecclesiastical ... Most members of this rite live in Lebanon. MARONITE. The Maronite rite traces its origins to the work of St. Maron in the 4th century ...

Let no one be deceived to think that this world would continue like this forever. We should look beyond all that are happening around us and call to remembrance, the prophecy of the endtime and repent ...

Schumer Backs Spending Bill and Lines Up Enough Democrats to Pass It Many Democrats wanted to block Republicans’ measure in defiance of President Trump, but Senator Chuck Schumer said a shutdown ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy delivers his homily during the March 11, 2025 Solemn Mass of Installation. He urged the faithful to “strive even more deeply to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ into our lives ...

For Kiemba Knowlin, pastor of the Jackson Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ in Flint, the pandemic was an "extremely ...

In an interview five days before he would be installed as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy expressed concern about the personal impact of the Trump Administration’s ...

26-year-old Newark Police Officer Joseph Azcona was shot and killed last Friday while on duty. Hundreds of people filled the ...