In the St. Paul school district, like many other school districts around the country, students need the permission of a parent or guardian to take medication during the school day.
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Faith of our fathers: deep roots and online ancestry
Somewhere in their midst — across the alley, around the river — two people met and married, forging the lineage that leads to you.
Divine Mercy graces not only available to the sick and dying
Thirteen years after Pope John Paul II established the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday, the image of Jesus with red and white rays coming from his side has become familiar in many parishes.
Papal transition: Opportunity to showcase the faith
It was another one of those conversations that have occurred with some frequency in the past few weeks.
The new Trojan horse: The HHS mandate and our religious liberty
Unable to breach the walls of the City of Troy with a frontal assault, the Greek attackers constructed a giant horse and hid inside soldiers who would later, under cover of darkness, sneak out and open the gates of the city.
Evangelizing through beauty
In his masterpiece “Brideshead Revisited,” Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a program of evangelization that has particular relevance to our time.
The best way to respect customers’ dignity is to provide great service
One of the most effective ways to live your faith at work is to provide great customer service. The way you show someone you care about them is to give them the attention they deserve as a living, breathing image of God. Too often, customers get treated as mere “consumers,” and the experience is less than satisfying.
An Alaskan cruise, a path to priesthood
Matthew Bearth was 17 when he set out on an Alaskan cruise that changed the course of his life and led him to the seminary. Today the 20-year-old college junior loves to recount that northern voyage.
Newfound optimism for educational choice in Minnesota
There is hope that new parental choice bills recently introduced in the Legislature will gather momentum
Museum exhibit calls attention to treatment of bodies after death
We are wonderfully and fearfully made (Psalm 139:14). The human person, made in the image and likeness of God, is the only creature on earth that God willed for its own sake.
Powering up for Lent
Post on Facebook. Send a tweet. Less than a month before Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI has called on Catholics to get into social media.
Robust Christianity revolves around faith, hope and love
St. Paul famously tells the Corinthians that there are “three things that last: faith, hope, and love.” At this Pauline prompt, the Christian tradition has identified these three as the “theological” virtues, meaning those features that come as a unique gift from God and that serve as the structuring elements of a properly spiritual life.
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