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Teresa Grady, the matriarch of one of America's best-known Catholic peace activist families, has ...
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John 10:27-30 Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. {split ...
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Many younger bishops exude confidence in being the unchallenged upholders of the Truth that they ...
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Dorothy Day is the ideal sainthood candidate in the Francis era, and it would be both ...
View ArticleExtract: The Joy of Discipleship
In this excerpt from his third book in English, The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope ...
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The former secretary of the Defence department, Tony Ayers, who died last week aged 82, was ...
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