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<p>I am (if nothing else) a curious person.</p><p>Sometimes that gets me in trouble. Like when I decided to find out what would happen if I jumped over a college balcony. I discovered—too late—it was almost two stories high. (Yeah, I impressed the girl…but I also limped around campus for a week!)</p><p>Other times, my curious nature is an unexpected blessing. Take today for instance: I was trying to remember a certain Scripture, couldn’t get it right, and su...

“Jesus revealed himself in this way” (John 21:1). Acts 4:1-12; Jn 21:1-14 If Chapter 21 of the fourth Gospel serves as a kind of coda, i...

False unity resolves division, but real unity involves holding diversity in tension.

REFLECTIONS TODAY Every now and then this question is being asked, including by some coffee advertisers: “For whom do you wake up?” In general, people do not like to wake up early; for them, waking up is a great challenge. And so to make a sleepyhead get up, his/her loved ones prepare breakfast an

A statue of St. Josemaria Escriva was one of many statues installed in the recently-completed Garden of Saints of the Mirador Jesuit Villa in Baguio City.

A Nigerian university student reportedly collapsed during his school’s Good Friday performance of “The Passion of the Christ.”

A Nigerian student suddenly collapsed and died on Good Friday, April 15, while reenacting the crucifixion scene during a school performance of “The Passion of the Christ.”

St. Peter the Apostle, original name Simeon or Simon, (died 64 ce, Rome [Italy]), disciple of Jesus Christ, recognized in the early Christian church as the leader of the 12 disciples and by the Roman Catholic Church as the first of its unbroken succession of popes. Peter, a Jewish fisherman, was called to be a disciple of Jesus at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. He received from Jesus the name Cephas (from Aramaic Kepa [“Rock”]; hence Peter, from Petros, a Greek translation of Kepa). ...

In a tragic incident, a seminary student from Nigeria died while re-enacting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The viewers took a few minutes to realise that Sule Ambrose, 25, was badly injured as they thought that it was part of an act. Some screenshots of the video footage of the incident have been released by several media outlets. Ambrose, a first-year student, was training to be a priest at the Claratian Institute of Philosophy in Nekede, southeastern Nigeria, according to BBC.

A re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ over Easter weekend ended with the death of a Nigerian student who was taking part, according to the Daily…