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What is the Basis of Certainty In My Life?

In an attempt to better understand what is happening in America today, two friends share the fruit of their work on the School of Community

We were both moved by how many people around us are suffering in the current climate, so we sat down to judge what's going on, and drafted something to share with everyone. Writing down this judgment together helped us remember that simply when working on...

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The strongest flame

The message of Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the 2025 edition of the New York Encounter

War is inevitably catastrophic. The ensuing humanitarian crisis, often followed by starvation and epidemics, with almost overwhelming destruction and loss, inevitably cause immense human suffering which simply break the human heart. When we speak about he...

Msgr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Giovanni Zennaro, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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From Vengeance to Forgiveness

The Lenten Message of Cardinal Pizzaballa to the diocese of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Dear Brothers and Sisters, In this Jubilee year we begin Lent by listening together once again to the proclamation which, through the mouth of the Apostle Paul, fills this special time with hope: “God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, n...

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The Rose

Alison shares her experience of hospitality as an expression of living the real intensely

I’ve had the charism of hospitality since I was a young girl. I inherited it from both sides of my family. I was throwing dinner parties like crazy, just like my dad, by the time I was 18. I’ve had thousands of personal encounters with friends and the fri...

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​​The Richness of Lorenzo’s Home

A pilgrimage to Puerto Rico in honor of the 10 year anniversary of Msgr. Albacete’s passing

It has been a few months since I joined with thirty or so of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete’s friends in a “pilgrimage” of sorts to San Juan, Puerto Rico where he was born and grew up. The pilgrimage was organized by the Albacete Forum which, for nine years, has ...