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The rebuilder's retirementFather Roger J. Landry

On Aug. 5, Pope Francis accepted the retirement of Boston Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap., and replaced him with Archbishop-elect Richard Henning, formerly the Bishop of Providence. It was ...

Continuing the Eucharistic Revival Father Roger J. Landry

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and the National Eucharistic Congress were the two most spectacular components of the ongoing three-year-plus National Eucharistic Revival, meant to catalyze greater ...

Divine Mercy and HellFather Roger J. Landry

When my siblings and I were very young and incorrigibly misbehaving, my mother, as a last-ditch effort to get us to listen, would occasionally pick up the rotary phone and inform us that she was calling ...

A long-awaited spotlight on the IVF and ART industries Father Roger J. Landry

The Feb. 16 ruling by the Supreme Court of Alabama, which by an 8-1 margin determined that cryogenically frozen human embryos are considered unborn children under Alabama law, has brought a long-awaited ...

Thanksgiving: Our sweet duty, joy, and salvationFather Roger J. Landry

At every Mass, one of the most significant dialogues in human life occurs. The priest says, "Let us give thanks to the Lord our God," the faithful respond, "It is right and just," and the priest replies ...

Responding morally as Catholics to the crisis in the Holy Land Father Roger J. Landry

For 75 years, the situation in the Holy Land has created various unresolved political and diplomatic problems. There are two peoples whose identities are firmly rooted in the same land, both of whom have ...

Praying to Mary for and with the synodFather Roger J. Landry

In Catholic piety and tradition, October is the month of the Holy Rosary. The month gets its identity from the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on Oct. 7. It marks the date in 1571 when the outnumbered ...

The vocation of grandparents in the salvation of the human race Father Roger J. Landry

When Pope Francis was giving his aerial press conference returning from World Youth Day in Lisbon, he said the main issue in caring for the young is "accompaniment," but "the problem is to know how to ...