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Tarah Hazard sat in a neighborhood park last year as her 2-year-old son played by himself in the sand. Hazard yearned for friendship — for herself and her son — but as was so often the case, no other families or children were to be seen in the park that day.
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A little more than 60 years ago -- March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, intending to march a 54-mile route to Montgomery, the state capital.
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Tarah Hazard sat in a neighborhood park last year as her 2-year-old son played by himself in the sand. Hazard yearned for friendship — for herself and her son — but as was so often the case, no other families or children were to be seen in the park that day.
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In his early 20s, Marcus Roesler, a parishioner of St. Francis Xavier in Shafer, said he felt influenced away from the Catholic Church. He became an agnostic. But behind the scenes, his mom, Lisa, was praying for him the entire time.
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A little more than 60 years ago -- March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, intending to march a 54-mile route to Montgomery, the state capital.
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For Father Fernando Mañó Bixquert, a special calling to evangelize can be traced back to Valencia, Spain. He wanted to do more of it; he wanted his parish to do more of it, too. Father Mañó Bixquert described himself as “restless,” always looking to go beyond.
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Archbishop Bernard Hebda recently offered a glimpse into preparing for the next few years of pastoral care in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis even as he reviewed fruits of walking in synodality through Archdiocesan Synod 2022 and Archdiocesan Synod 2025.
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Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions -- including a 3-year-old child -- taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation's long-running armed gang violence and political instability.
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The 143rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus opened in Washington Aug. 5 with a call to charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism, as Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly urged members to be "heralds of hope" in a world searching for meaning.
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For most of its running time, the intermittently amusing comedy "The Naked Gun" (Paramount), a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, qualifies as a fun spoof that's appropriate for most grown-ups. Yet its one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave discerning viewers anything but entertained.
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Chesterton Academy has a growing network of over 70 campuses worldwide. Matt Gerlach, the headmaster of the Hopkins campus, which just had its 18th graduating class, shared that Chesterton’s mission is to focus on the call to holiness and help parents spiritually form and raise their children to respond to this call.
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The Catholic Church is a community of believers, and as Catholics, we should have spiritual role models, Bishop Michael Izen said. This practice of being spiritual role models goes back to the Old Testament, Bishop Izen said.
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As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its commitment to nonviolence, disarmament and lasting peace, said U.S. prelates attending commemoration events in Japan.
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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati died almost 100 years ago, but he would have fit in perfectly with many Catholics' groups of friends. He was born in Turin, Italy, in 1901, among the political upheavals, war and social strife of the opening years of the 20th century. Against this challenging backdrop, Pier Giorgio exemplified a life of devout faith, strong friendships, social activism and rugged adventure.
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I learned a little prayer many years ago that has become more important as time goes by. It comes from the night prayer of the Church: “Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.” These words from Psalm 31 are meant to be a prayer for restful sleep or a prayer during uncertain times of distress. These are also the last words of Jesus as he died on the cross, and they are repeated at Catholic funerals as a prayer commending a loved one into God’s hands.
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