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Perspective

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Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Jared Staudt

Jun 26, 2025

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Solidarity: The Path Between Nationalism and Globalism

(Photo: Lightstock) We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Mary Beth Bonacci

Jun 26, 2025

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Why Adam and Eve Weren’t Ashamed — and Why That Still Matters Today

What Adam and Eve's Original Nakedness in the Garden of Eden Reveals About God’s Plan and True Intimacy, According to the Theology of the...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Tanner Kalina

Jun 25, 2025

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The Only Guaranteed Investment

(Photo: Unsplash) I’m certainly no financial wizard. One look at my bank account will verify that (please send help?!). But with my...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

George Weigel

Jun 25, 2025

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On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary

(Photo: Adobe Stock) How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

George Weigel

Jun 22, 2025

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Meeting the world to convert the world

Vatican II in session, circa 1962-1965. (Photo: Catholic Press/Wikimedia Commons) In a June post at the website Where Peter Is , author...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Paul Winkler

Jun 20, 2025

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Against the War of Words: An Open Letter to Catholic Leaders

(Photo: Unsplash) During my childhood, communism, which Pope Leo XIII had condemned in the previous century, loomed as a global threat...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Allison Auth

Jun 19, 2025

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Wounded Love: Self-protection vs. Self-gift

(Photo: Lightstock) My first job at a parish after graduating from college was a bit of a shock. Coming down the mountain, so to speak,...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

George Weigel

Jun 18, 2025

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“Public” does not = “state” or “government”

(Photo: Unsplash) In its recent non-decision, St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School v. Drummond , the U.S. Supreme Court let...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Guest Contributor

Jun 16, 2025

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God, Community, Mission: A Call to Christian Community

(Photo courtesy of the Sisters of Life) By Mother Agnes Mary, S.V. “The people who died in Dachau shaped my adult life.” With these...

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Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Guest Contributor

Jun 13, 2025

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Serving the Family, Serving the Church: The Dual Vocation of a Deacon 

Abram with his wife and children. (Photo provided) “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up with the training...

A white sun symbolizing the Holy Spirit against a blue to yellow gradient, representing hope.
Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Jared Staudt

Jun 12, 2025

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Why We Need the Eastern Churches, In Pope Leo XIV’s Own Words

Pope Leo XIV greets participants of the symposium “Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity” in...

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Monsignor Bernie Schmidt gives a blessing at the altar, surrounded by candles and a gathering.

Joseph Kneusel

Jun 12, 2025

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Faith and Algorithms: A Catholic Software Engineer on Pope Leo’s Call for an Ethical Use of AI

Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. (Photo:...

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