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July 16, 2025Faith

Some moments in history are so singular that even many years after their occurrence we remember exactly where we were when we heard the news of their happening. May 8, 2025, will remain one of these days ...

Culture & Events

Scripture Reflection for July 20, 2025, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeDeacon Greg Kandra

Gn 18:1-10a Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 5 Col 1:24-28 Lk 10:38-42 "You are anxious and worried about many things." How many of us can relate to that? How worried and anxious are we? Count the ways. Our worries ...

Faith & Family

Why is the church allowing my brother to marry again after annulling his prior union due to alcoholism?Jenna Marie Cooper

Q: My brother is an alcoholic and has already had one failed marriage because of it. He recently got an annulment and is now planning his second wedding. How can the church let him marry again when it ...

Faith & Family

The impact of DOGE cuts on migrants and refugeesBishop Nicholas DiMarzio

The funding cuts initiated by the current administration, launched by the new and powerful Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have indiscriminately affected many vital programs, especially those ...

Faith & Family

'We hold these truths'Archbishop Richard G. Henning

In the Catholic tradition, moral theology speaks of the principle of subsidiarity. This principle reminds that large institutions and governing bodies should not overwhelm or dominate smaller institutions. ...

Faith & Family

Missionaries: Helping People Stay Afloat Before and After DisastersMaureen Crowley Heil

Early in my ministry with The Pontifical Mission Societies (TPMS), I had the opportunity to travel to Ecuador with other TPMS leaders. We visited with missionaries who worked with street children in ...

Faith & Family

Perfect in loveJaymie Stuart Wolfe

Some Bible verses are more challenging than others. "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt 5:48) is a case in point. Jesus speaks those words so matter-of-factly -- as if we could ...

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To Rome for the palliumFather Robert M. O'Grady

The pallium that Archbishop Henning will receive on June 29 is "a white circular band of wool two inches wide, with two weighted pendants, front and back, worn around the neck, shoulders and breast, ornamented ...

Culture & Events

Into the Deep: The tradition of the Blessing of the FleetRebecca Maitland

This past Corpus Christi weekend, June 21-22, Archbishop Richard G. Henning led "Into the Deep," the first Eucharistic procession by sea in the history of the Archdiocese of Boston. The procession began ...