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Perspective

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George Weigel

Mar 27, 2024

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Easter, Creation, and holiness

What came first: Creation, or God’s covenants with the People of Israel and the New Israel, the Church? The question may seem odd, even...

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Guest Contributor

Mar 26, 2024

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Finding Peace in Surrender: Perspectives on Anxiety and Control 

(Photo: Aleksandr Ledogorov / Unsplash) By Lisa Smith St. Raphael Counseling In today’s fast-paced world, anxiety has become a prevalent...

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Paul Winkler

Mar 22, 2024

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Why company culture eats strategic plans for breakfast

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Many a strategic plan ends up gathering dust on shelves or on the corner of a desk rather than being effectively...

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George Weigel

Mar 21, 2024

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Following the Jewish Jesus

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to...

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Jared Staudt

Mar 14, 2024

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A Biblical Path for Lent: Brant Pitre’s Introduction to the Spiritual Life 

During Lent, we focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order to repent and turn our lives back to God. The 40 days of this holy...

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George Weigel

Mar 14, 2024

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The good news is that the bad news isn’t all the news there is

In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, observed that,...

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Mary Beth Bonacci

Mar 11, 2024

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Lent: A time of weeding, a time for love

I’m seeing a meme on social media which quotes Pope Francis as discouraging fasting, recommending people to “eat whatever you want” and...

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George Weigel

Mar 6, 2024

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Two who didn’t run

His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and...

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George Weigel

Feb 29, 2024

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‘Gendered’ nonsense is dangerous nonsense

Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that...

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Paul Winkler

Feb 23, 2024

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A Daily Examen for Catholic Business Leaders

(Photo: Adobe Stock) In Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises , there’s a dialog between two characters which goes like this: “’How did...

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Jared Staudt

Feb 23, 2024

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Sustaining the Fast: Simple meals for the Lenten desert

Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It’s common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol,...

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George Weigel

Feb 22, 2024

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Two years on, still unbroken

Two years ago, Russian forces attempted a Hitlerian blitzkrieg in Ukraine. According to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, its goal was to...

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