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Another Way to Look at Dressing for Mass

Jennifer Fulwiler: A few months ago when I was out of town visiting another church, I saw a sight that I won’t soon forget. I had just settled into the pew a few minutes before Mass when something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I looked over to see a voluptuous woman in… Read More ›

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Three weeks as an Islamic State captive – one woman tells her story

Erbil, Iraq, Mar 31, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The woman was just 19 years old when she was captured by militants from the Islamic State. Caring for her young son and pregnant with her second child, she was separated from her husband and told that she would be forced to marry a member… Read More ›

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Emotional Pornography

Sex sells.  Marketing in our culture is almost exclusively based on sex.  We have known this for years, and although we think we are stronger than corporate marketing strategies, we (men) still fall easy prey to GoDaddy super bowl ads and Victoria’s Secret ceiling-high mall pinups.  When I say “easy prey,” I don’t mean we all… Read More ›

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Cistercian nuns plan new monastery after vocations rise

Madison, Wis., Oct 18, 2012 / 05:03 am (EWTN News) Following a vocations boom at Valley of Our Lady Monastery near Madison, Wis., an architecture firm is designing a new monastery complex for the community of Cistercian nuns, the only one in the English-speaking world. “It’s very exciting to see this happening, very providential, the fact… Read More ›

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Ten Facts Men Should Consider About Their Wife!

Before she was your wife she was God’s daughter…and He is very concerned about how someone treats His girl! Women are responders, so if there is friction/conflict in the relationship she is most likely responding to something that is off center…and it is going to take an actual conversation where you use words to figure… Read More ›

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Benedictine sisters start community in Mount Holly, NC

MOUNT HOLLY — In a simple little home in Mount Holly – with the looks of the typical American dream: two stories and a two-car garage – something more than the American dream is being realized for a budding community of sisters following the Rule of St. Benedict. On Feb. 9, they were acknowledged by… Read More ›

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Feast of St. Scholastica

Scholastica is, according to tradition, the twin sister of Benedict. She is a shadowy figure whom we know from a single charming story in the Dialogues. She led some form of consecrated life with a group of Christian women. Gregory tells us that yearly she journeyed to meet her brother at a small house midway… Read More ›

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Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood

Young mother never wanted an abortion, but didn’t know she could refuse until her phone alerted her to an incoming text message [Note: The following story contains quotes from text messages that do not contain proper grammatical structure or punctuation, as is common practice in texting. We left the quotes unedited in the interest of… Read More ›

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Humanity’s Fall Through a Woman Now Restored Through Women.

The women came to the tomb, but they didn’t find the body in the tomb. Instead, they were told by angels that Christ had risen. The women reported this to men. And what’s written? What did you hear? These things seemed in their eyes like an idle tale. How very unhappy is the human condition!… Read More ›

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