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Retired Belleville (Illinois) Bishop Edward Braxton, the former bishop of Lake Charles, says a divided, polarized country must unite in prayer and in action.

Father Manuel gives his homily for the weekend of Dec. 19-20.

Kids’ Clarion asked Mount Carmel Sister Beth Fitzpatrick to reflect on the first reading scheduled for Masses Dec. 13, the Third Sunday of Advent (Isa. 61: 1-2A, 10-11).

A community foundation makes it even easier to achieve your charitable giving goals while positively impacting the greater community.

On election day, all Catholics should speak up for the sanctity of human life when they enter the voting booth by voting yes to the Love Life Amendment.

Today’s readings spur me to think about our family becoming white.

St. Paul makes a sweeping claim in today’s second reading. Nothing can separate us from God’s love, he says. Neither “present things” nor “future things.”

We do not know how to pray as we ought,” St. Paul tells us today.

(God) has not forgotten us but set aside a unique child (or children) for us, just as he does for every couple blessed with pregnancies.

The lives of little ones will be shaped by what we show them and tell them.

It seems the best way to break down the artificial barriers in our society is to find common cause with people who may be different from us but who share the same concerns and desire for a better future for our neighborhoods, our state and church!

As true Catholics, let us continue to pray for the church, our country and our world that we will see our call to work for true peace and justice and transform the world by disseminating God’s love.

If we as a society are to move forward from systemic racism, racial bias and racial inequality, then we must first change the perception that some whites have of African-American people, specifically African-American males.

There comes a time when silence in the face of evil constitutes complicity in that evil, and for me, that time has come.

Given the current concerns regarding the health and safety of our families and the community at large, income taxes might not be a high priority item.

Since receiving my certified nursing assistant (CNA) certification last December through my high school’s unique “Health Science Major” program, I could not wait to enter the medical field. 

Of all the pregnancy handbooks that exist, none covers what to do in a pandemic.

Our eyes and ears have seen and heard what our minds could not fully understand as the world struggles through days, weeks and months of a pandemic.

I  write four weeks before you read. Sometimes this makes a difference. Last time I wrote, it was thoughts on Easter.

"I can’t believe this is really happening!” This was the deeply felt sentiment, spoken and unspoken, on the minds and hearts of many...