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SCRIPTURES & ART: Today’s feast is fundamental both to knowing who Jesus is and who we are supposed to be.

If you happen to be in Rome on Christmas Day, you can visit the Vatican's featured Nativity scene from Peru. It's populated by some 30 charact...

Psalm 137 John 3:14-21 The invitations to rejoice in the middle of Lent sing in a different key from the jubilant songs of Christmas or Easter. Our first reading, which seems to have inspired our Fourth Eucharistic Prayer, outlines the history of the people of God as a saga of infidelity, rejection of prophets, and of losing our way by seeking our own advantage. But we remember this history only because God continually refused to let it define our future. The real story underneath our first rea...

Lent: Week One Intermountain Catholic As part of my Lenten prayer, I took time to reflect on the Gospel reading for the first Sunday of Lent, which was the four verses of Mk 1:12-15. What immediately struck me was the last line, “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” I’ve heard this admonition often enough over the years, but for the first time it occurred to me to wonder whether Jesus’ audience would have understood the word “gospel.” We Catholics understand “gospel” to mean the ...

Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washgington is the chairman-elect of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education. Courtesy photo Help us expand our reach! Please share this article SPOKANE -- Outside of parish life, the two areas that Bishop Thomas Daly has been most involved in are vocations and education. At times he has been a vocations director, a seminary rector, a teacher, a campus minister, and a school president. This has given him years of experience to draw on as he assumes the role of c...