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May 11, 2020

Wake up

Now more than ever, we must deepen the relationships around us, which afford us an opportunity to encounter God anew.

Edward HerreraCommentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

May 7, 2020

A new mom’s glimpse of the Father’s heart

Every step, every milestone, no matter how small, is such a joy because I know what it took for my son to get there. Every smile and every hug are a gift, and I’m keenly aware of this since it did not come naturally at first.

Connie PoulosCommentary, Guest Commentary, Video

May 7, 2020

Counting blessings this Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is bound to be memorable, but not because of the global pandemic we’re all enduring. Rather, because of the immense gift that I have been given in our beautiful, healthy daughter.

Elizabeth LoweAmen, Commentary, Coronavirus

May 3, 2020

Rediscovering baptism in plague time

Let me urge you again: make this time of plague and quarantine the occasion to dig the “Catholic paper” out of your records, find your baptismal certificate, and learn the date of your baptism. And then, with appropriate celebration, ponder just what happened to you that day.

George WeigelCommentary, The Catholic Difference

May 1, 2020

The quarantine’s three lessons about the Church

So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.

Bishop Robert BarronCommentary, Coronavirus, Word on Fire

April 23, 2020

Did Jesus have to die for our sins?/ Waiting for the right partner

Father Doyle fields questions on why Jesus died for our sins and waiting for the right marriage partner.

Father Kenneth DoyleCommentary, Question Corner

April 21, 2020

Five years after Laudato Si, and 50 after the first Earth Day

Let this five years’ marking of Laudato Si and 50 years’ celebration of Earth Day impel our desires to know and accept our sacred place like never before.

Doug DeMeoCommentary, Environment, Guest Commentary

April 17, 2020

The legacy of St. John Paul II’s encyclical ‘Evangelium Vitae’ at 25

A culture of life is always within reach and is built one moment and decision at a time.

Elise Italiano UreneckCommentary, Guest Commentary, Respect Life

April 16, 2020

Sense of smell

John Garvey reflects on not having his sense of smell.

John GarveyCommentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

April 14, 2020

Lessons from the novel ‘The Plague’

When overcome with fear, do we pray to a merciful God or see God’s wrath punishing us?

Father Eugene HemrickCommentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

April 9, 2020

A response to ‘We are an Easter people’

It is irresponsible to assert that we know enough about the virus to encourage, in good conscience, the sorts of decisions that could very well end up becoming matters of life and death.

Catholic News ServiceCommentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

April 9, 2020

From disaster, an Easter people rise

This plague has opened our hearts and minds to questions that we should have been asking all along: What is most important to us? Do we love well? What can we count on?

Carolyn WooCommentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

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