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During this unusual time, appreciate the wonder at being in the presence of Jesus by being present to others.

People from the diocese discuss the reasons why an increasing number of young people marry outside the Church.

At the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way.

Perhaps, after weeks of uncertainty and nearly unhealthy doses of hopelessness, church is precisely the place we can bring those feelings — anxiety, fear and nervousness — and lay it down at the altar.

Our faith calls us to learn what the Lord is asking from our lives and trust that God is already at work.

A quarter-century has passed, and attacks on life continue with alarming frequency. As each attack further darkens our society, we — the Church — must carry the light of life preached in Pope St. John Paul II’s “Gospel of Life.”

The nurses kept using the same word. The doctors used it, too: Rock star.

I’ve been a bit puzzled about all the debate and outrage over wearing masks. I know some of it is weirdly ideological, but some of it seems to be a misunderstanding of why we have been asked to wear masks in the first place.