‘A motherless child’: reflecting on adoption and abortion
By Mark Schmidt Special to The Witness “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child! Sometimes I feel like a motherless
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Columns
The pursuit of happiness in the new year
Don Currey was a 30-year-old graduate student when he cut down the world’s oldest tree. A brown-eyed, sun-tanned geography student
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Faith formation in the home and in the community: not an either/or scenario
Catechists do not teach a subject, Joe Paprocki says. “Catechists are facilitators of an encounter with Jesus … a living
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Behold the Lamb of God
January 15, 2017 SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Is 49:3:5-6 The Third Song of the Suffering Servant Ps 40:2, 4,
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My favorite books of 2016
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Longing for Christmas peace in the Holy Land
During this wonderful time of the year, when Christians throughout the world focus minds and hearts on the coming of
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Incarnation – God is with us
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We cry out “Abba, Father!”
January 1, 2017 THE OCTAVE DAY OF CHRISTMAS – SOLEMNITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD Nm
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The present of presence
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/121816.cfm On a beautiful Sunday evening in Advent, a group of confirmation students strolled with lit candles to a nearby
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The gifts of the Magi
January 8, 2017 THE EPHPHANY OF THE LORD Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13 Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12 http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010817.cfm
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