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April 2025

April 26, 2025
Did Pope John Paul II feel fear? One of the refrains of his papacy was...
April 19, 2025
The Resurrection of Jesus that we celebrate on Easter calls us to have hope in...
April 14, 2025
Does God Suffer? Christ chose to suffer on the cross. This challenges our understanding of...
April 11, 2025
Today, on Palm Sunday, the Church gives us a curious liturgy. We go from jubilation...
April 05, 2025
Sometimes God wants us to forget, and sometimes God wants us to remember. Danny Haag...

March 2025

March 25, 2025
Pope John Paul II is the “Pope of mercy.” This comes through very clearly in...
March 23, 2025
Our recent Duke Catholic Center mission trip to Cancun was both a service trip and...
March 07, 2025
Perhaps you have been in prayer and wondered whether God is talking to you or...
March 03, 2025
Jesus went into the desert to pray (Mt. 4:1-11). There, He faced the Devil’s temptations,...

February 2025

February 28, 2025
Do words shape reality, or do they reveal it? In a world flooded with media,...
February 21, 2025
Are Christians supposed to be nice? Is that what it means to turn the other...
February 13, 2025
What does it take to become a saint? Sister Clare's life gives us some clues....
February 06, 2025
P.T. Barnum was a man who seemed allergic to boredom. The musical “The Greatest Showman”...
February 01, 2025
  Jesus preached salvation to all. This is the basis of Catholic teaching that all...

January 2025

January 25, 2025
Raskolnikov, the main character from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, wants to experience freedom. He is...
January 18, 2025
Belonging to Christ invites us to grow in intimacy with him. Last week, we celebrated...
January 08, 2025
We all have a desire of belonging to something. Today, as we celebrate the Baptism...
January 04, 2025
What does it mean to be a pilgrim? A pilgrimage is one of the great...

December 2024

December 28, 2024
The family is the basic building block of society. As we celebrate the Holy Family,...
December 23, 2024
St. Alphonsus Liguori tells a story of St. Francis of Assisi. The indifference he found...
December 20, 2024
As we get closer to Christmas, Jesus is inviting us to recognize the reality of...
December 13, 2024
What meaning does your life have? We are often unaware of how many lives we...
December 07, 2024
 Noise can keep us from hearing what is most important. The noise of the world...
December 01, 2024
Recently, I heard the story of Jason Evert’s recent trip to Australia. Jason is a...

November 2024

November 20, 2024
At the end of each liturgical year, the readings of the mass of Christ the...
November 16, 2024
We can do things in a new and innovative way. In the language of the...
November 08, 2024
Today’s liturgy reminds us of the value of some everyday believers who gave everything they...

October 2024

October 30, 2024
To understand Galileo’s struggle with the Church, we must understand the conflict about religious truth...
October 28, 2024
Christianity is about more than morality. Mahatma Gandhi was once asked about his thoughts on...
October 23, 2024
Scientists do science and theologians do theology, right? Galileo was one who broke the mold....
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