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There are four challenges awaiting Pope Francis at Rio's World Youth Day...
John Allen
In exactly two months, Pope Francis will make his first overseas trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. It shapes up as the biggest Catholic blowout of the early 21st century, a massive celebration of history’s first Latin American pope folded into what’s already the Catholic version of Lollapalooza. At one level...

The family fell first then faith followed...
Austin Ruse
The clearest example of the thesis on how family nurtures faith is in vocations. In the olden days larger intact families produced priests. That’s one reason the seminaries bulged back in the baby boom, also why there was something of a religious revival after the Second World War. But today’s two-child, one-child, no-child, broken-up...

How’s that “culture of encounter” workin’ for ya?
Max Lindenman
If you define a culture of encounter as a search for common ground, then the Church, by the lights of its own leadership, has been participating in one for decades. (George Weigel gives a good overview of the inner-city renewal projects co-signed by the Bishops’ Conference under Cardinal Bernardin’s leadership.) What it got in return was nuns on the bus...

I'm going to share a little life improvement secret I've discovered...
Simcha Fisher
Even at this late date, I’m still looking for it: that one, simple step I can take that will make my life easier, make my love stronger, make my brain faster, and make my pants looser. Deep down, I know there is no such thing; but hope springs eternal in the heart of a lazy person.

Heroine says Catholic faith inspired her to confront Muslims who murdered soldier in London...
Dawn Eden
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother of two and former Scout leader who calmly confronted the Woolwich killers in hope of preventing further bloodshed, credits her heroic actions to her Catholic faith. Her Catholic values also come through in the video interview above, when she is asked why she wasn’t scared to confront the murderers.

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"Who are we before God? What are our challenges?" Francis meets the Italian bishops...
Rocco Palmo
At the close of the Italian bishops' plenary this week in Rome, the home-bench – led by its primate, the Pope – gathered in St Peter's tonight to make a communal Profession of Faith as part of the ongoing Year of Faith. The event marked Francis' first full encounter with the powerful Italian conference, known as the CEI.

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"A war between Catholics": Nigerian bishop installed away from cathedral as tribal tensions threaten Church unity...

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The Book of Genesis is true, and the universe is 13.8 billion years old. There is no contradiction here...
Jimmy Akin
Wouldn't it be great if scientists invented a device that enabled us to have a clear window into the past--so that we wouldn't just have to read about the past in books? Instead, with the new device--let's call it a Time Window--we could actually see events occurring in the past in real time, with our own eyes? That would be wicked awesome, wouldn't it?

Did Pope Francis really preach salvation by works, and that all men will be saved?

Pope Francis: Be "salt of the earth" and not "museum-piece Christians"...

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