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Sacraments of Initiation or Affirmation?
The sacrament of confirmation has not generally been a pressing concern to the editors of People magazine. Last week, however, this often neglected and misunderstood sacrament made the news....
Can Transsexuals Be Baptized?
These are not easy days to be a Catholic pastor. In our age of entitlement and mixed messages, pastors are faced with questions that were unthinkable just decades ago—such...
Screens and Sacraments
The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled aristocracy and the emissaries of empire; a whiff of scandal over the...
