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Verbalizing your most personal thoughts and issues to another human being is a process that everyone can understand is important on some level. The idea of a skilled professional giving advice and direction on what to do next to avoid repeated issues is common in many different areas of life, including career mentoring. Some individuals may even draw connections between this practice and the way therapy often works.
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After a meaningful plot reveal, the film zeroes in on the interiority of Maria’s murderer, who is in the room with us. In light of this revelation, perpetrators, victims, sinners, and saints stand on equal ground, because mercy infuses justice. Despite our discomfort with this evening of scales, grace still does its work. It vitalizes the bleak room of the prison, a place one character likens to Hell.
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Why Mercy Still Matters By Colleen Dean, Contributing Writer You may have seen the trend going around—2026 is the new 2016. People are sharing memories that capture how much life has changed in ten years, while reminiscing about the “good old days” that now feel so recent. In keeping with this spirit, let us reflect […]
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Moses the Black: “No One Can Serve Two Masters” By Marge Hynes, Writer Moses the Black imagines a modern-day Chicago gang leader, Malik, whose life echoes the brutal conversion of one of the Church’s most arresting saints. The film asks the viewer to remain, uncomfortably, inside the world humanity constructs without Christ: blood, death, sin, […]
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This advent, I spent each day reading Susan De Bartoli’s Welcoming the Christ Child with Padre Pio. Although this book was released in 2022, it was a tremendous daily read to prepare for Christmas.
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Author Emily Cavins draws us into Kateri’s life with depth, respect, and insight, revealing a woman who found beauty in great suffering and God’s grace in the creation she so dearly loved and revered.
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In the case of Mary, who brings all our prayers to God and is a stronger intercessor than all the other saints and angels combined, there is actually a Latin phrase to keep in mind: De Maria numquam satis. Literally translated, it means “Of Mary, [there is] never enough.”
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Cheryl Hughes shows us that although he died over forty-five years ago, Fulton Sheen remains a relevant model for living out the Catholic faith and sharing it with others in the modern world. The book displays why Sheen was someone who captivated the attention of others, often reaching more non-Catholics than Catholics.
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On Tuesday, the Vatican released an important doctrinal note about Marian titles that has generated commentary across Catholic media outlets and boisterous conversation on X, Substack, and the like. Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People) clarifies that Mary’s role in salvation does not need enhancement through titles that might suggest she shares in Christ’s work of redemption—specifically “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix.”
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On Saturday, November 1, Pope Leo XIV will declare St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. This declaration comes at the end of the Jubilee of World Education, which began October 27 and saw Pope Leo declare Newman a co-patron saint of the mission of Catholic education (alongside St. Thomas Aquinas).
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