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Our Lenten Journey, March 1

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Welcome to The Dialog’s Lenten Journey for 2021, “Forty Days, Forty Deeds.” Throughout the season, we will be offering suggestions for acts of prayer, kindness and charity to enrich your faith journey, along with readings for the day from the...
In college, I made Bluto Blutarsky from "Animal House" look like a choir boy. One night I got rip-roaring drunk, fell backward down a flight of stairs, split my head open. Spent the night in the hospital and got 12...
All but one of the Catholic high school basketball teams will open play next week in the boys’ and girls’ state tournaments, which begin Monday night. This year, the tournaments have an open format, so any team that wished...

Our Lenten Journey, Feb. 27, 2021

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Welcome to The Dialog’s Lenten Journey for 2021, “Forty Days, Forty Deeds.” Throughout the season, we will be offering suggestions for acts of prayer, kindness and charity to enrich your faith journey, along with readings for the day from the...
SAO PAULO -- The Brazilian bishops' conference has come under fire from some of its more conservative members since it announced this year's Fraternity Campaign, which defends Indigenous peoples, criticizes the high rates of femicide and speaks up against...
WASHINGTON -- A contingent of national Catholic organizations has called on President Joe Biden to undertake steps to have the United States rejoin the Iran nuclear deal in an effort to promote peace and international security. The 26 organizations also...
MANCHESTER, England -- A religious order has withdrawn its request to exhume its founder and transfer some of her remains from England to Philadelphia. The Society of the Holy Child Jesus announced Feb. 25 that it was abandoning its plans...
WASHINGTON   -- The psychological and emotional trauma of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is only now beginning to be felt, and is bound to keep affecting American workers for some time to come. "The other virus that we're dealing with is...
What is propelling outlandish public statements that are becoming increasingly common today? Could it be they have become a new means for getting media attention and national recognition? Could ridiculous statements be a new avenue for shaking up people's usual...
WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in a 224-206 vote Feb. 25. A couple days ahead of the vote, the chairmen of five U.S. bishops' committees said its mandates will "discriminate against people of faith" by...