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May 23, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
As we live these years of Eucharistic Revival in the United States, we are invited to rediscover the basics of our Eucharistic faith and experience them anew.
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May 9, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
This is the season when parishes and families everywhere are celebrating First Communion.
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April 25, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
The final testament of our relationship with Jesus Christ extends through our relationships with those around us, especially the most vulnerable and marginalized among us from the unborn or the dying to those facing poverty or the immigrant.
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April 11, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
During the Easter season we pray Psalm 118 frequently in the Church’s liturgy. It is a song of victory, acclaiming the Lord’s strength against oppressors in the face of defeat.
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March 27, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Within the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration of Jesus, there is a telling, but sometimes overlooked, instruction.
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March 14, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
We now are approaching the very heart of the Church’s liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum.
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February 29, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI wrote a teaching letter on the topic of the Eucharist to the entire Church following a synod of bishops. In that letter he writes, “The Eucharist is constitutive of the Church's being and activity.
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February 15, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
There is nothing more exhilarating for a Catholic than participating in a grand celebration of the Eucharist.
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February 1, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
As we continue this graced time of Eucharistic Revival in the United States and prepare for the historic National Eucharistic Congress in July, I am devoting my column this year to a deeper catechesis on the mystery of the Eucharist and the Mass.
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January 18, 2024
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Join me in Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Revival!
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December 14, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus and the marvelous events that surround his nativity. We are drawn into the amazing mystery that the second person of the most holy trinity united human nature to himself and was born of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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November 30, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Education plays a significant role in securing a brighter future for our young people. A Catholic education is especially valuable with its focus on the whole child in goodness, truth and beauty.
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November 16, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Robert Hugh Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury who converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest. He also was a prolific writer of fiction.
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November 2, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Sainthood is not a prize for good behavior. Saintliness, or rather, holiness, is something deeper – something even more profound than proper and moral conduct.
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October 19, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
During October, a special event has been taking place in Rome. Three years ago, Pope Francis called for a worldwide consultation that would culminate this month with what he called a “Synod on Synodality.” So, what is it all about? What is a synod, a synod of bishops, specifically?
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October 5, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Wine holds a special place in the Catholic imagination. Throughout the Bible, wine represents God’s gift to his people, and Jesus even promises that such a great gift will be present in heaven (Lk 22:18).
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September 21, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
On Sept. 28, I will have the privilege of ordaining the transitional deacon class of the North American College at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Among this group of men from dioceses all over the United States, is one of our own – Stephen Jones.
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September 7, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
There are many things that distinguish our Catholic faith and practice from other expressions of Christian faith and certainly from the dominant secular faith of our culture.
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August 24, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
On Aug. 28 we celebrate the feast day of one of the most intriguing and well-known saints on the calendar: Saint Augustine; a product of the Church of the 4th century.
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August 10, 2023
by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley
Atop Mount Tabor, in the Holy Land, stands the Church of the Transfiguration – built on the traditional site of the mystery the Church celebrates each year on Aug. 6. It was designed by Twentieth-Century Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi in 1924.
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