Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

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April 2025

Burke and Schneider launch prayer campaign for conclave
The College of Cardinals decided upon May 7 as the start date for the conclave, as announced Monday
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Michael Haynes
The Pope is dead: What happens next?
"We ask the Lord and the head of the Church to send us a new successor of Peter who will gather the flock of God like a good shepherd"
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Michael Haynes
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Maundy Thursday: What is Christ's love we are called to imitate?
St. John admonishes that we must “not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”
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Michael Haynes
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Pope Francis’ shock untidy appearance in Vatican: Was it intentional?
The timing and manner of his guest-starring appearance in the Vatican today will have reminded the Roman Curia just how hard to pin down, or predict…
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Michael Haynes
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Theodore McCarrick dies at 94. What damage did he cause?
Catholics are now urged to pray for his soul, and also for the souls of all those who may have turned their back on the Church due to McCarrick’s…
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March 2025

Pope Francis in hospital: the truth, the half-truths and the future
With at least two months of isolated recovery, Pope Francis faces a completely new era of his pontificate after emerging from a 38-day hospitalization.
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Michael Haynes
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St. Joseph: Patron of the house at Nazareth and the Church today
St. Matthew’s Gospel records how St. Joseph “did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him” – a phrase not just applicable to his decision to take the…
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Michael Haynes
Cardinal Pell, Bishop Álvarez point to the power of prayer
“God writes straight with crooked lines, and given that I was sentenced to jail, I do regard it as a gift and a grace” said Cardinal Pell
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Michael Haynes
St. Joseph: Patron of the Church, guardian of God's ‘choicest treasures’
God chose Joseph as lord and chief of His household and possessions, the guardian of His choicest treasures, wrote Pope Pius IX.
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Michael Haynes
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February 2025

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