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Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth ...

For instance, at almost exactly the time of the birth of Jesus (4-6 B.C.), some Jews became fed up with the Jewish King Herod ...

And this is the Church: The Lord feeds his people, but he does so through others. On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, we ...

Believe it or not, the story of Jesus Christ has a lot of similarities with mythological figures that predate him. Common ...