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How senior editor Jennifer Woodruff Tait celebrates Christmas

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What does historical betrothal tell us about Advent?

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Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Text turmoil

How heated debate shaped Vatican II documents and their interpretation

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

“That they may be one”

Vatican II and a new spirit of ecumenism

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Gifts of the Spirit

Vatican II and charismatic renewal 

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Reformers of Rome

Some Catholic leaders who influenced Vatican II

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Legacy and longevity

impressions of Vatican II

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“In the darkness, degradation, pollution and misery that surrounds me, I will look forward in the vision of faith to the time when some of these poor i...”

Patterson, George. Missionary Life Among the Cannibals: Being the Life of the Rev. John Geddie. Toronto: James Campbell & Son, James Bain & Son, and Hart & Co., 1882.

Devotional

How Readily We Promise what We Cannot Perform (1847)

They have done well in all that they have spoken. Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me an...