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Perspective

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

Feb 23, 2024

4

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A Daily Examen for Catholic Business Leaders

(Photo: Adobe Stock) In Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises , there’s a dialog between two characters which goes like this: “’How did...

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

Feb 23, 2024

3

min read

Sustaining the Fast: Simple meals for the Lenten desert

Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It’s common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol,...

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

Feb 22, 2024

3

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Two years on, still unbroken

Two years ago, Russian forces attempted a Hitlerian blitzkrieg in Ukraine. According to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, its goal was to...

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

Feb 17, 2024

5

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True covenant, true happiness

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty...

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

Feb 15, 2024

4

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Lenten literary companions

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along 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.

Jared Staudt

Feb 9, 2024

4

min read

A Joyful Sacrifice: How Men Can Prepare for Marriage

In our vocations crisis, we mostly focus on the priesthood and religious life, but a new dimension of this crisis falls fast upon us....

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

Feb 8, 2024

4

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Tohu wa-bohu on the Tiber

Within 24 hours last month, three mainstream Catholic websites ran stories describing Pope Francis’s meeting with the members and...

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

Feb 1, 2024

3

min read

Secularist blinders and the Middle East

When I first met Yigal Carmon in November 1988, he was counter-terrorism adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a position he...

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

Jan 27, 2024

3

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Educating for what matters most

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff) January 28 kicks off Catholic Schools Week, timed to coincide with the patron of Catholic education’s...

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

Jan 25, 2024

4

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St. Augustine, Florida: The Catholic Plymouth Rock

Florida, that land fancied by Ponce de Leon as a bouquet of Paschal flowers, stands at the beginning of the Catholic story of the United...

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

Jan 25, 2024

3

min read

Standing with Ukraine

My friend and colleague Carl Trueman recently observed that “the West is no longer a consortium of serious cultures.” To which I am...

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.

National Catholic Register

Jan 24, 2024

6

min read

Work-Life Balance: Advice for Attaining Peacefulness in Daily Routines and Within Our Souls

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) The notion of work-life balance receives considerable attention in our Western culture. It’s often...

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