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Overcoming Temptation: 1st Sunday of Lent

The readings for today’s Mass are exceptionally rich and could be the subject of several week’s worth of lectures, so we will have to limit ...

The Greatness of Lent by Scott Hahn

We enter the season of Mercy — the season that Eastern Christians call “Great Lent.” We in the West are fond of brevity, and so ...

Franciscan University Presents: “Consuming the Word” on EWTN

When we use the term “New Testament,” we usually just mean the last twenty-seven books of the Holy Bible, the ones written by the Apostles ...

Thomas Aquinas on John 6:53 (“the flesh is of no avail”)

The Bread of Life discourse in John 6 has Jesus emphasize over and over again that it is necessary for believers to “eat his flesh” ...

The Tolerance of Paganism

David Bentley Hart, in Atheist Delusions, writes about the kind of religious culture early Christians left behind when they accepted baptism:   “Quite apart from their ...

Loving Your Enemies: John Bergsma Examines the 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Sunday’s Readings include some of the best known—and hardest to practice—passages from the Gospel, including Jesus famous command to “turn the other cheek.” Biblical ...

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