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Jorge Mario Bergoglio has proclaimed a “Jubilee Year of Mercy” to begin on December 8, 2015, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the fiftieth anniversary of the closing of the “Second” Vatican Council by Giovanni Battista...

Today is the Fifth Sunday of Lent which begins Passiontide. If one attends Mass strictly in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite it is not generally apparent having mostly been done away with liturgically speaking, though there are some remnants of it...

Lent – a season where it’s common practice for Catholics to ask each other ‘What are you giving up for Lent?’ Okay. So I’m half-serious. But that’s the kind of idea of we had of Lent growing up. A time of ‘giving up’. While I understand the value of...

My dad chuckled when he told us kids that he was conceived under an apple tree out behind the barn up on the old DeJong place. There’s something about the thining, dim edges of a story like that, well, a kid can’t forget. I never dared...

This is the full text of Misericordiae Vultus, the bull of indiction of the extraordinary jubilee of mercy: 1. Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. These words might well sum up the mystery of the Christian faith. Mercy has become living...