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Lent Is Not a Detox: What the Gym Taught Me About Real Penance

Every January, gyms fill up. Every February, they empty. If you’ve ever had a gym membership—or at least driven past one—you already know this story. January is full of hope, optimism, and brand-new sneakers. By Valentine’s Day, most treadmills are lonely again, quietly humming to themselves like abandoned exercise bikes in a zombie movie. […]

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U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly

The full text of the bishops’ Special Pastoral Message follows:

As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. […]

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More than just a Doctor of the Church

There are thousands of Catholic saints, but only 37 have been declared doctors of the Church: men and women who contributed mightily to doctrine and theology and shaped the course of Church history. 

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