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Father Bayer: Economy and Life

Wednesday, May 10, 20170430 I am convinced Catholics have an important gift to give to the world through the “social teaching” developing in the Church since Rerum Novarum in 1891. But even...

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Father Esposito: The cross, our wisdom and our tree of life

Thursday, April 27, 20170293 The basilica of San Clemente in Rome features a stunning apse mosaic depicting the cross of Christ as a tree trunk bearing immense fruit in the form of circling vines...

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Father Bayer: Easter and the Valley of Bones

Thursday, April 20, 20170145 Lent is over. Now it is time to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. For forty days, we tried to understand the rough words spoken to us as a priest marked our foreheads with...

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Father Gollob: Hear God’s call, harden not your hearts

Monday, April 3, 20170244 During this Lenten season, the refrain after the reading from the prophets has warned us, “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts!” This warning has...

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Father Whitfield: The hope and power of confession

Sunday, April 2, 20170310 “Hope rather than fear,” St. Thomas Aquinas taught, is the true “cause of confession.” An act of love, confession “gives us life,” he said. It’s a...

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Father Esposito: The Lenten reading of the Letter to the Hebrews

Friday, March 31, 20170264 By Father Thomas Esposito Special to The Texas Catholic Among the myriad treasures of Sacred Scripture, one of the most neglected has to be the Letter to the...

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Father Bayer: Proselytism and evangelization

Wednesday, March 29, 20170267 What is the difference between evangelization and proselytism? As Christians, we have been commanded to go out and “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). And...

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Father Bayer: Proselytism and Evangelization

Saturday, March 11, 20170149 What is the difference between evangelization and proselytism? As Christians, we have been commanded to go out and “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19). And...

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Father Esposito: A journey through the Lenten season with Qoheleth

Friday, March 3, 20170237 Life can bear the stamp of a perpetual Lent for many people, believers and non-believers alike. The desert is the dominant symbol for the church’s annual preparation...

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Father Gollob: Remembering the blessings in our lives