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Reimagined for today's Catholic Christian, this monthly newsletter raises awareness and understanding of vital faith issues, helping believers make connections to everyday life.
"Marriages are not self-sustaining and do not survive on autopilot. They require constant attention and intentional effort. But it can be a rewarding effort. It ...
DEEPLY PRAYERFUL INSIGHTS
"A personal testimony of gratitude to God who has sustained me throughout my confused, distracted, and often difficult life." —From the Introduction
Some human suffering can't be "fixed." Maybe yours ...
Church Documents
From time to time Catholic Update provides condensations of pastoral letters, encyclicals and other helpful Church documents from the Vatican or from individual episcopal conferences.
God Is Love
This issue of Catholic Update presents the text of Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical in an easy-to-read, condensed format. "Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction."...
"Lent is, of course, the traditional time for engaging in religious practices. The key is to strike a balance between external and internal and to undertake these practices ...
EVERYDAY WISDOM
The book of Revelation—you might find it fascinating, you might find it incomprehensible, but either way you probably don't think it has much to say about everyday ...
INSPIRATION FROM LUKE
God's plan for your life is not as mysterious or unknowable as you might think. As Sister Ann Shields demonstrates in her probing reflections on the Gospel of Luke, the key to knowing what ...
THE YEAR FOR PRIESTS
In this very personal and moving reflection on the meaning of the priesthood, Father Alfred McBride explores a priest's commitment to feed our people and witness the church's social teachings, to spend time in daily prayer, ...
The Gospel of Life
Gives the Church's authoritative position regarding abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, ecology and biological engineering....
Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning
This issue of Catholic Update summarizes key moral issues around the subjects of cloning and stem cell research. While the Church has been vocal ...
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