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Cookie Policy The portal Osservatore Romano uses technical or similar cookies to make navigation easier and guarantee the use of the services. Furthermore, technical and analysis cookies from third parties may be used. If you want to know more click here. By closing this banner you consent to the use of cookies. I AGREE The Light that enlightens 30 April 2021 Every year the Holy Fire brings many enthusiastic followers of Jesus to Jerusalem. How do you explain the fa...

Compost and Communion April 25, 2021 Karl J. Forehand Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels As I progress in my deconstruction and the subsequent journey, it seems that language becomes especially important and, sometimes, the old vernacular doesn’t work for me anymore.  I am constantly searching for new language to attach to my journey in an attempt to have a more authentic experience.  For example, I now call my journey an evolution instead of a reconstruction since I don’t just wan...

This is the book cover of "The Early Church (33-313): St. Peter, the Apostles and Martyrs" by James L. Papandrea. The book is reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article "The Early Church (33-313): St. Peter, the Apostles and Martyrs" by James L. Papandrea. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2019). 125 pp., $16.95. "The Early Church" is the first in a series of books on "Reclaiming Catholic History." The seven books in the series will recreate for...

Celebrate Sunday Mass - Easter Sunday - 4.4.21 Dear Catholic Online Community and Catholic Online School students... I AM HAPPY TO OFFER EACH OF YOU AN INVITATION TO HOLY MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY in the Catholic Diocese of Tyler. The response to offering these liturgies online has been overwhelming. The readings, as always, offer so much for us to reflect on. It is helpful to pray through them and reflect upon them before we assist at Holy Mass.  There is no Mass of the Day on Holy Saturday. Rath...

I grew up a Jewish boy in a South African gold-mining town known as Krugersdorp. I remember sitting in shul (synagogue), enthralled as our learned rabbi expounded how God was a personal God—he would speak to Moses, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to many others. Growing up, I often pondered how I fit into all this. By the time I entered the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, I was deeply concerned that I had no assurance that God was indeed a personal God. I was confident that he w...

Interfaith prayer marked by respect, not relativism Pope Francis talks with a religious leader during an interreligious meeting on the plain of Ur near Nasiriyah, Iraq, March 6, 2021. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) By Msgr. Gregory J. Fairbanks • Posted March 10, 2021 Pope Francis recently completed an apostolic visit to Iraq. Any journey of a pope is newsworthy, but this trip captured the hearts and imaginations of many. It was the first visit of a pope to Iraq. Iraq is a country that has been the...

REFLECTIONS TODAY The evangelist Matthew loves to point to Scripture passages as being fulfilled by Jesus. Jesus says he has come to complete “the Law and the Prophets” (two words designating the whole of the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament). However, he does not propose to literally observe

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There are multiple reasons why one cannot speak about “A Christian View of Islam.” Both religions have billions of followers so that terms such as “Christianity” and “Islam” should be understood as merely “emaciating abstracts.” In 2020, there were 2.382 billion, or 31.1 percent of the world’s population, who identified as Christians. Correspondingly, 1.907 billion Muslims, or 24.9 percent of the world’s population, adhered to Islam in 2020. Thi...

"The lost coin" by Marian Honors, C.S.J. For me, Sundays are not only a day for Mass and extended prayer but one of rest from social media. Rather than posting anything remotely controversial, I try to share more irenic fare online. So on Sundays I usually post two reflections on social media. The first is from The Jesuit Post, a sister site of America Media, which offers short and punchy “One-Minute Homilies” from younger Jesuits. (Technically speaking, they are not homilies since they ar...