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Mike Nelson, Catholic News Service

Mike Nelson, Catholic News Service
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Fasting from sin is a challenge all of us face daily

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In the beginning, fasting was no big deal -- or at least it shouldn't have been. God gave Adam and Eve all they wanted, with...

Catholic social teaching on human dignity: ‘Let us love one another’

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In recent centuries, dozens (if not hundreds) of church documents containing millions (if not billions) of words address Catholic social teaching. But the essence...

Advent Week 1: New season and new year remind us how...

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How many of you, when asked, "How are you doing?", have replied, "I'm just waiting for this year to end"? We have experienced in 2020...

Autumn: Patience and promise amid the changing seasons

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In our backyard is a solitary Liquid Amber tree (liquidambar) that from spring through summer produces a gorgeous bounty of green leaves, providing welcome...

Father’s Day: Faith, fathers and the real power of persuasion

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"My son," says the Book of Proverbs, "do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those...

Pentecost: Know forgiveness, know peace; no forgiveness, no peace

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"Peace be with you," Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19). Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a...

Forgiveness, both giving and receiving, is core to our Catholic faith

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Forgiveness -- both seeking and offering it -- is one of the great challenges of our Catholic faith. But it is also among its...

Gifts of the Spirit: Piety is compassion to be shared

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It was raining hard the day our son, then a high school freshman, encountered a rain-drenched student he did not know but who, unlike...

Gifts of the Spirit: Knowledge is more than just facts

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What is knowledge? More specifically, what is knowledge in relation to our Catholic faith? Several years ago, I came upon St. Bonaventure's "Prayer for the...

Justice, peace and the call of our baptism

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Some awfully nice visions of the future are painted in this year's readings for the Second Sunday of Advent -- peace and justice, primarily. But...