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Stephen P. White
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David Warren
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Luis E. Lugo
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Randall Smith
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Fr. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
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TCT Video
Papal Posse from Synod Central on the Synod’s final document: transparency or secrecy? And China. And doctrine and practice.
Papal Posse from Synod Central on the Synod’s final document: transparency or secrecy? And China. And doctrine and practice.
Sacred Spaces
Discovering Amsterdam’s Clandestine Churches
RECENT COLUMNS
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Stephen P. White
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David Warren
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Luis E. Lugo
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Randall Smith
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Fr. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.
NEWS
COMMENTARY
TCT Video
Papal Posse from Synod Central on the Synod’s final document: transparency or secrecy? And China. And doctrine and practice.
Candlemas and four English martyrs
Stephanie Mann, NCRegister
Friday, February 3, 2023
Although our liturgical calendar doesn’t completely reflect it in the season of Ordinary Time, the Feast of the Presentation, also called the Feast of the Purification of Mary or Candlemas, is the last feast of the Christmas cycle. Forty Days after Our Lord’s Nativity, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph fulfill their obligations of purification and offering at the Temple. It’s finally time to put the Nativity crèches and festive greenery away; Christmas is officially over.