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by William J. Tighe For all Christians today who observe a “liturgical year,” the high point of that year is the annual commemoration of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection at the end of Holy Week. Good Friday recalls to the faithful the Lord’s suffering and death, and in most Christian traditions is a day of ascetical practices, particularly fasting. Holy Saturday commemorates his entombment and descent to hell, and thus is also a day of asceticism. Easter Sunday, by contrast, is the joyous celebration of his resurrection, and of the resurrection of mankind in him...

(JTA) — Americans watched in shock on Wednesday as a mob broke into the Capitol, ransacked senatorial offices and exiled a joint meeting of Congress. Many who witnessed this desecration

As mobs stormed the hallowed halls of American government, we lost something sacred. The Talmud can help us process the grief

footnotes. Nile, Euphrates, Tiger, Indus (Pakistan), Ganges (India), and the Yellow River in China. The best approach to explaining the succession of civilizations and Empires in the  Fertile Crescent (Greater Syria) that raided and conquered the Near East civilizations such as in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria ( Phoenicia, Canaan, Aram) is the analogy of survival among the lions and lionesses. Young lions that attained two years, after being chased out of the clan, prowl the region for lionesses to mate and establish clans of their own. Old lions are attacked and displaced and the cubs are ...

In the details, he’s trying to tell us something. Here’s one significant “detail” that merits our attention: When God sent us a Savior, he sent him by way of a family—the Holy Family of Nazareth. God could have chosen another way. Maybe Jesus could have blazed to earth like some superhero from another planet, or just shown up as a mysterious stranger. But the fact is that the Father entrusted his Son to human parents, Mary and Joseph. What can we learn from the fact that Jesus had an earthly family? What does it mean for parents and children today? And is there anything about the Ho...