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April 08, 2019

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will wash the feet of young people on Holy Thursday. South Sudan’s leaders are expected to begin their Vatican retreat today. The Pope has recognised the heroic virtues of a nine-year-old Brazilian boy who died of cancer in 1964. Pope Francis has dismissed an Italian priest from the clerical state. Sister

Franciscan University president resigns

April 08, 2019

Fr. Sean Sheridan, TOR, has resigned as president of Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. Fr. Sheridan informed the university’s trustees of his decision during a regular meeting of the board on Friday. The unexpected decision comes almost exactly six years since his appointment to the role in April 2013. Although he informed the university board

Progressive writers are starting to admit the sexual revolution was a failure

April 08, 2019

In the Guardian, Yvonne Roberts writes about how grim the sexual revolution was. She was there, and describes the sexual permissiveness not as something liberating but something monstrous dressed up as “peace and love.” It was a dystopia that gave rise to a rape culture. But today she notes the marked decrease in sexual activity

Pope Francis: Conversion requires a resolve to sin no more

April 08, 2019

Pope Francis Sunday emphasized the need for people to have a firm resolve to change their lives when they ask for forgiveness of their sins. “Every true conversion is aimed at a new future, at a new life, a beautiful life, a life free from sin, a generous life,” the pope said April 7. And

Why we shouldn’t strive for the perfect family

April 08, 2019

Last week, people in Britain celebrated Mothering Sunday – an unabashedly Christian recognition of this unique vocation – and I have been reading a frank, funny and thoughtful book on being a mother, Good Enough is Good Enough, by Colleen Duggan (Ave Maria Press). There is pressure on mothers from all sides: For Catholics there