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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6316319759262454036</guid><category>Head</category><title>Jamaica Braces for Catastrophic Flooding and 160-Knot Winds as Hurricane Melissa Approaches...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-landfall-cuba-bahamas-8f71433722c9963554421d9258cd4d6b</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Hurricane Melissa intensified Tuesday as it crawled toward Jamaica, where officials and residents braced for catastrophic winds, flash flooding and landslides from the Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7794287902917738192</guid><category>Left</category><title>St. Jude, and the US bishops' conference...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/st-jude-and-the-us-bishops-conference</link><author>null@newadvent.org (J.D. Flynn)</author><description>Today is the feast of the apostles Simon and Jude, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. Simon and Jude are two apostles about whom we know relatively little. In fact, we know them each most by who they were not. Simon is the apostle with that name who did not become Simon Peter, the rock upon which our Church is built. Jude is in two Gospels called Thaddeus, and he is sometimes called Judas, as he was in St. John’s account of the Last Supper...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7966064456562130962</guid><category>Center</category><title>As Hurricane Melissa Rages, Remember What Our Lord Told St. Faustina During a Storm: ‘Say the Chaplet I Have Taught You’...</title><link>https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/pray-divine-mercy-chaplet-calm-storm</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Today I was awakened by a great storm. The wind was raging, and it was raining in torrents, thunderbolts striking again and again. I began to pray that the storm would do no harm, when I heard the words: Say the chaplet I have taught you, and the storm will cease.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8196146942359179103</guid><category>Left</category><title>All Souls: A Reflection on the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/all-souls-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-commemoration-of-all-the-faithful-departed</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>When St. Paul talked about the resurrection of the dead with the philosophers at Athens, many laughed and mocked him . The Gospel, he would later write, is “foolishness” to the wise of this world. Yet this week’s First Reading tells us that it is foolish to think that the souls of the just are dead. Instead, theirs is a “hope full of immortality. ”By His Resurrection, Jesus frees the human race from the fear of death, from the terrible fear of the unknown...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8353375795510066893</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Grammar of Catholic Education...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/grammar-catholic-education</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marlon De La Torre)</author><description>In the letter to the Hebrews, the author makes a statement of faith that presumes two things about the exercise and practice of a faith in God. One, an active faith proposes a belief in God the Father, and that our hope rests on God, and two, an active faith exercises docility to the will of God, even when we may wonder if He is present during a time of great need...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8408392838926094221</guid><category>Left</category><title>Mother Catherine of Siena Defied the Red Dragon of Soviet Communism...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/10/catherine-siena-anna-ivanovna-abrikosova-joseph-pearce.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Joseph Pearce)</author><description>It has been said, purportedly by G.K. Chesterton, that when people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing but in anything. Even worse is that the things which people believe are not merely godless but deadly and demonic. Take, for instance, the modern anti-Christian creeds that led to the French and Russian Revolutions and to the rise of the Nazis...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3048556547072686801</guid><category>Center</category><title>9 Baseball Heavy Hitters for a Catholic World Series Dream Team...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/simonson-catholic-baseball-lineup</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There are those, living and dead, who have made a significant contribution to baseball. There are likewise those who have, in their manner, served as shining examples of faith. And then there are some who’ve done both. October begins on the feast of St. Thérèse de Lisieux and ends on All Hallows’ Eve, with several significant feasts in those days between. All of us know that it’s likewise the month when the baseball season reaches its climactic conclusion...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5317541540908251375</guid><category>Left</category><title>5 Ways Protestant ‘Dunks’ on Catholics Backfire...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/10/5-ways-protestant-dunks-on-catholics.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In this episode Trent Horn examines how Protestant arguments against Catholicism can backfire...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6896033599581517825</guid><category>Center</category><title>How God Used a ‘Nobody’ to Convert 10 Million People at Guadalupe...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/10/how-god-used-nobody-to-convert-10.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Chris Stefanick)</author><description>I’m so excited for you to watch this week’s Sunday Reflection that I filmed on a recent pilgrimage to Mexico City while literally climbing up Tepeyac Hill, the place where Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to St. Juan Diego in 1531. It doesn’t get much humbler than Juan Diego. He was a peasant, an absolute nobody by the standards of the world. But God chose to work through him to bring about the largest mass conversion to Christianity in history...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5224863204926834959</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Sinister Crisis Ravaging America’s Young Men...</title><link>https://amac.us/newsline/politics/the-sinister-crisis-ravaging-americas-young-men/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Deavel)</author><description>It’s not a wholesome topic, much less so on a Sunday. But Christians and all others who care about the moral health of society should be thinking about the crisis of pornography and whether there are ways in which we can, at the very least, battle against it. A recent article in Harper’s Magazine titled “The Goon Squad” sheds a disturbing new light on this problem...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6950743616822826670</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV to Visit Nicaea in Turkey and St. Charbel’s Tomb in Lebanon During First Apostolic Journey...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267421/pope-leo-xiv-to-pray-at-tomb-of-st-charbel-during-first-apostolic-journey-to-turkey-and-lebanon</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Vatican on Monday released the full program for Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic journey, which will take him to Turkey and Lebanon from Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.The trip will center on two key moments: a pilgrimage to İznik (ancient Nicaea) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a visit to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf in Lebanon.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9047561168094039072</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘Do Not Be Afraid to Admit Your Mistakes ... Entrusting Them to God’s Mercy’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-angelus-admit-mistakes-pharisee-tax-collector.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV recalled the two contrasting figures from the day’s Gospel reading: the Pharisee, confident in his own righteousness, and the tax collector, conscious of his sin. The Pope was speaking just after the Jubilee Mass dedicated to synodal teams and participatory bodies on Sunday, and before his weekly recitation of the Marian prayer of the Angelus.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5656582182053346263</guid><category>Center</category><title>Who’s the Front-Runner to Lead at the USCCB?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/whos-next-to-lead-at-the-usccb</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>When the U.S. bishops meet for their plenary assembly in Baltimore next month, they’ll discuss the prospect of the 2029 National Eucharistic Congress, a new text of ethical directives for Catholic hospitals, and spend a great deal of time talking about the situation of immigrants to the United States. The bishops will no doubt approve a message to send to Pope Leo — their American brother — and receive a message in response, through apostolic nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6331728545748552180</guid><category>Left</category><title>Cardinal Burke Celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267411/photos-cardinal-burke-celebrates-latin-mass-in-st-peter-s-basilica</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a special Traditional Latin Mass for hundreds of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25 — a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the ancient liturgy</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6856876376004664697</guid><category>Center</category><title>Octopus Arms Are the Animal Kingdom’s Most Flexible...</title><link>https://www.popsci.com/environment/octopus-arms-flexibility/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>With three hearts, blue blood, and eight arms that seem to have a mind of their own, octopuses are among the ocean’s most fascinating creatures. Their signature limbs and complex nervous system help them explore, communicate, capture prey, and mate in many marine habitats. Now, scientists are unlocking some of the secrets embedded in these arms, namely whether they have some degree of “handedness.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1038382362241734219</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Sunday, How Satan ‘Ambushes’ Religious People (and How to Get Away)...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-how-satan-ambushes-religious-people-and-how-to-get-away</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>Jesus tells a parable about a Pharisee praying in the Temple area. He believes God is impressed by all of his spiritual accomplishments. Meanwhile, a tax collector beats his breast and bows his head, praying only, “O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” We know the rest of the story: This Pharisee is like the Pharisees who rejected Jesus, and this publican is like the tax collectors and sinners who became his disciples.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2861954123048865019</guid><category>Center</category><title>Bishops Need to Earn Their Priests’ Confidence...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/bishops-need-to-earn-their-priests-confidence/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Phil Lawler)</author><description>Every now and then, when I have trouble choosing a topic for commentary, I consult the CatholicCulture archives, to see what I was writing five or ten or fifteen years ago around this time of year. So it was that today I found a piece that I had written in October 2017: The crisis of pastoral leadership. That article, in turn, was prompted by a message from a friend, a priest in a relatively strong American diocese, who complained about the sort of directives he received from the chancery.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3638869129417523522</guid><category>Left</category><title>Shaking Hands, Vigano II, and Spy Time...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/shaking-hands-vigano-ii-and-spy-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Ed Condon)</author><description>It’s been a strange experience for me watching the royal Vatican visit this week, being an American-born Catholic whose first legal act as an adult was to swear an oath of fidelity to the British sovereign. The whole meeting was a mass of obvious contradictions. The pope conferred on the King the status of “royal confrater” of the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, not to be confused with the Anglican church in Rome dedicated to the same saint, referred to by English seminarians as “St. Paul Outside the Church”.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3860962331376000756</guid><category>Center</category><title>What’s Happening to the Anglican Communion?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/whats-happening-to-the-anglican-communion</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Luke Coppen)</author><description>Earlier this month, a body known as GAFCON — the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans — declared it was “now the Global Anglican Communion.” In the Oct. 16 declaration, entitled “The future has arrived,” the alliance of conservative Anglican church leaders said it had resolved to “reorder” the Anglican Communion, the world’s third-largest Christian communion after the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-474281295119053105</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Does the Bible Say About Israel?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/what-does-the-bible-say-about-israel</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>In the biblical narrative, Israel is a person before it’s a people. The great patriarch Jacob, the son of Isaac and the grandson of Abraham, is renamed Israel (“he who wrestles with God”) following his nocturnal contest with the Lord. Jacob (Israel) went on to have no less than twelve sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. These twelve sons were the basis for what eventually became the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6862945258656547955</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Nothing Short of a Miracle’: Annunciation Church Shooting Survivor Sophia Forchas Returns Home After 57 Days...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/annunciation-shooting-sophia-forchas-comes-home</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Alyssa Murphy)</author><description>Twelve-year-old Sophia Forchas is finally home — after spending 57 days in the hospital with severe injuries sustained from the deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis during the first school Mass of the year that claimed the lives of two students. Sophia received a fond farewell outside the hospital on Oct. 23. In a statement posted to the family’s GoFundMe page, Sophia’s parents, Tom and Amy Forchas, wrote</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2955861361927759049</guid><category>Left</category><title>St. John Henry Newman’s ‘Second Spring’ Reaches Its Full Bloom...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/st-john-henry-newman-s-second-spring</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV will declare St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church on Nov. 1, All Saints’ Day, capping off a remarkable few weeks for Catholics in his native England — weeks that illustrated how far their present position has changed since the mid-19th century. Newman is being made a doctor for his theological work, but the timing emphasizes the historical shifts of which he was both a participant and a witness...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1496589087770552622</guid><category>Center</category><title>Hamas’ War on Women: Survivors Detail Horrors of Captivity...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/hamas-war-women-survivors</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>She was twenty-seven years old, kidnapped from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023. She didn’t survive. Her body was returned to Israel two years after she was taken. The last known female hostage held by Hamas.“There wasn’t a moment when we weren’t abused,” said Aviva Siegel, one of the first women to be released. She was held for 51 days.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5424604124469416666</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III Make History With First Joint Prayer Since Reformation...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267349/pope-leo-xiv-and-king-charles-iii-make-history-with-first-joint-prayer-since-reformation</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, marking the first time since the Protestant Reformation that a reigning British monarch and a pope have prayed together during a royal state visit to the Vatican.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5388259258772506188</guid><category>Center</category><title>John Paul II: The Man, the Pope, the Saint...</title><link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/22/man-pope-saint/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Today the Church celebrates the feast day of my hero: Carol Joseph Wojtyla, or, as we usually call him, Saint Pope John Paul II. When I arrived at the Vatican as a young Swiss Guard, I had a largely secular understanding of Catholicism. At that point, my faith was my parents’ and not truly my own, an “outsider” view that was both helpful and deceiving. Because of that perspective, I was able to meet and then interact with John Paul...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-800796274850164582</guid><category>Left</category><title>The 5 Great October Homilies of St. John Paul II...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/five-great-october-homilies-of-john-paul-ii</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In recent decades, canonizations have often been scheduled for October, and so frequently fall on World Mission Sunday, the second-to-last Sunday in October. It was established in 1926 by Pope Pius XI, who had the previous year established the solemnity of Christ the King, then fixed for the last Sunday in October. The mission of the Church is to proclaim that the kingdom of God is at hand.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2478888137921635153</guid><category>Center</category><title>Dying From Compassion...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/dying-from-compassion</link><author>null@newadvent.org (George Weigel)</author><description>The “Mother of Parliaments” — that’s the one in London — has been embroiled for months in a debate over “assisted dying,” which is euphemized elsewhere under other Orwellian monikers: “Medical Assistance in Dying,” “Physician Assisted Suicide,” “Physician Assisted Dying,” and so forth. The bill legalizing this odious practice narrowly passed the House of Commons on June 20 and has been subsequently debated in the House of Lords. Further parliamentary procedures may delay a final decision until next April or May; the parliamentary clock may even run out on the bill, which would be all to the good. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8352198375725072134</guid><category>Left</category><title>Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Journalists Condemn Threat to Free Press After Assaults on Journalists...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267321/cardinal-parolin-vatican-journalists-condemn-threat-to-free-press-after-assaults-on-journalists</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and an organization of Vatican-accredited journalists have spoken out in support of a free press after the recent attacks on two journalists in Italy. In a statement released Tuesday, the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the Vatican (AIGAV) condemned last week’s assault on Venezuelan Vatican journalist Edgar Beltrán by businessman Ricardo Cisneros...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2266363133686434466</guid><category>Center</category><title>No Favorites: A Reflection on the Upcoming 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/no-favorites-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-thirtieth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Jesus draws a blunt picture in today’s Gospel. The Pharisee’s prayer is almost a parody of the thanksgiving psalms. Instead of praising God for His mighty works, the Pharisee congratulates himself for his own deeds, which he presents to God in some detail. The tax collector stands at a distance, too ashamed even to raise his eyes to God. He prays with a humble and contrite heart. He knows that before God no one is righteous, no one has cause to boast...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8897155434853495196</guid><category>Left</category><title>Scared of Spiders? Some Former Arachnophobes Now Are Keeping Jumping Spiders as Pets...</title><link>https://www.npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-s1-5544386/jumping-spider-pet-spoods</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For Emily Hess, it was a Phidippus regius named Gretel. Hayden Shea's first was caught by her boyfriend's dad. Sunday Costell ordered her first one off eBay. Those spiders were the gateway bugs into the booming community of jumping spider pet owners. And thanks to social media videos of their head-tilting, leg waggling antics, these web-slingers are in high demand.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4975914832114001130</guid><category>Center</category><title>Why Use Many Streetlights When One Will Do?</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2024/11/why-use-many-streetlights-when-one-will.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The moonlight towers of Austin, Texas, are the last urban municipal lighting towers in the world: because before every street was wired to the grid, how else would you light up a city?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7964738472751768233</guid><category>Left</category><title>Straight to Heaven, Straight to Hell...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/straight-to-heaven-straight-to-hell</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Karlo Broussard)</author><description>One of the most common objections Protestants raise against the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is that it seems to contradict what Jesus taught about the immediacy of heaven after death. In fact, well-known Protestant writers Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie make this exact case in their book. Their argument is simple: Jesus teaches that people either go straight to heaven or straight to hell after death, leaving no room for an in-between purification like purgatory...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-432675273140859840</guid><category>Center</category><title>When Catholics Forget Our Mission, the Church Declines...</title><link>https://catholicmissionarydisciples.com/news/when-the-church-loses-its-mission-people-lose-their-faith</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marcel LeJeune)</author><description>I while back, I helped a friend move into his new home. He is a Catholic priest and got assigned as Pastor to a new parish. This parish has multiple locations, a school, a big staff, and dozens of large buildings. When he realized just how many things he is responsible for, it was a bit disorienting. It was also clear that he is stepping into a situation where some of these responsibilities are possible distractions to that which is much more important...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-886535952587485448</guid><category>Left</category><title>27 Aphorisms for Knowing God in the Present World...</title><link>https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/27-aphorisms-for-knowing-god-in-this-present-world/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>How strange that almost everyone will obey worldly authority with such unqualified zeal, particularly when it is evil men in charge who give the orders. Yet speak of the necessity of submission to God, and these same people who usually are willing to do slavishly as they are told act suddenly as if they have never heard of duty. When in the Acts it is said that the early Christians were described as...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-996910123604893090</guid><category>Center</category><title>Bishops Denounce Rising Mafia-Style Violence in Sicily Following Murder of 21-Year-Old...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267283/bishops-denounce-rising-mafia-style-violence-in-sicily-following-murder-of-21-year-old</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The murder of a 21-year-old Italian man after trying to break up a fight has prompted two southern Italian archbishops to sound the alarm against the rise of Mafia-style killings among young people. At a prayer service Oct. 18 for Paolo Taormina, who was killed one week ago outside the family-owned bar where he worked, Archbishop Gualtiero Isacchi of Monreale, Italy, told the faithful present...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8378438325817118402</guid><category>Left</category><title>A German Bishop in Peru Resigned in July and Now Thinks He’s Married. It’s Invalid, But What Happens Next?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-bishop-says-hes-married-what-happens</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A German news outlet reported last week that a bishop who took early retirement last year has contracted marriage civilly, despite claims that he resigned over health reasons. The Holy See press office announced last July it had accepted the resignation of 63 year-old Bishop Reinhold Nann, the German-born prelate who led the Peruvian territorial prelature of Caravel.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8549528888206269593</guid><category>Center</category><title>There is not, never has been, and never will be a single human being for whom Christ did not suffer.....</title><link>https://www.dominicanajournal.org/for-whom-did-jesus-die/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Consider Jesus hanging on the cross. Observe the cuts on his body from being scourged and violently stripped of his clothes. See the gashes made from falling under the weight of his heavy cross. Notice the torn flesh of his pierced hands and feet. Look him in the eyes as blood drips down his face. Why did the God-man endure this? For what—for whom—was all this blood shed?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-10462078073022475</guid><category>Left</category><title>Bread for Beasts...</title><link>https://weirdcatholic.substack.com/p/bread-for-beasts</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>“Of all religions,” writes medievalist Robert Bartlett, “Christianity is the one most concerned with dead bodies.”1 True, but why, and how soon after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus did this practice take hold? We begin with the obvious: there are no relics of Jesus, because His body dwells in glory. We next must turn figures of the New Testament...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-834588477423027200</guid><category>Center</category><title>Are We Teaching Too Much Religion?</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/are-we-teaching-too-much-religion</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Some time ago, I walked into an argument among several Catholic religious educators, both lay and religious, where the question was whether too much time was being dedicated to religious instruction. Before you do a double-take and ask yourself: Did I read that correctly? And, once you realize you did, you might wonder: Why would anyone think this? How can anyone argue against too much religious instruction...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4369294397499979310</guid><category>Left</category><title>5 Ways to Become a Grounded Woman...</title><link>https://theologyofhome.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-become-a-grounded-woman</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Carrie Gress)</author><description>A few weeks ago, a new ad popped up on my Instagram feed. Grounding sheets. I didn’t know what they were, but now, after a feed flooded with posts about them, I have a pretty good idea. They are meant to connect a sleeper with the earth’s natural energy frequency, hence “grounding.” Who wouldn’t want to connect with the ground, the earth, dirt, something solid, ordered, natural, and life-promoting?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-796713738462642606</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Least-Visited National Park Unit in All 50 States...</title><link>https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/national-parks/least-visited-national-park-in-each-state</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>What do Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains national parks have in common? Breathtaking landscapes is one answer, but it’s not the only one. During peak season, you’ll also find packed parking lots, crowded trailheads, and never-ending lines for restrooms, restaurants, and viewpoints at each one. You go there to unwind, to be awed and inspired. Instead, you find yourself surrounded by tour groups, selfie sticks, and crying toddlers.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6045577555168277349</guid><category>Left</category><title>I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They’re Here...</title><link>https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/i-test-drove-a-flying-car-get-ready-theyre-here-257b0ecf</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Welcome, and congratulations. You’ve lived long enough to see the age of flying cars—privately owned, solo-piloted aircraft, free to operate in unrestricted airspace, much as automobiles can take to the open road. And they’re all electric. I knew you’d be thrilled.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4254539137130365732</guid><category>Center</category><title>Bishop Scharfenberger of Albany Retires; Boston Auxiliary Bishop O’Connell Named Successor...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/bishop-scharfenberger-of-albany-retires-boston-auxiliary-bishop-oconnell-named-successor/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, 77, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Albany, New York, and has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Mark W. O’Connell of Boston as his successor. The resignation and appointment were announced by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., in Washington Oct. 20.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8005539359157152092</guid><category>Left</category><title>Goon Assaults ‘The Pillar’ Journalist in Rome for Asking ‘Delicate’ Question About Venezuelan Dictatorship...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-journalist-assaulted</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Today the Church canonized seven new saints, including the first two Venezuelans ever to be canonized: St. José Gregorio Hernández and St. María del Carmen Rendiles. In Venezuela, everyone is excited about those canonizations — and the embattled regime of President Nicolas Maduro has even gotten in on things, sponsoring celebrations across the country to mark the canonization.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1782133496063683154</guid><category>Center</category><title>Is It a Sin to Watch Pirated Content Online?</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/dmq-copyright-and-social-media</link><author>null@newadvent.org (E. Christian Brugger)</author><description>Presuming the content of the material you view is innocent — not pornographic, and so forth — there is nothing in what you have said that suggests viewing them is in itself mortally sinful. To commit a mortal sin, three conditions must be met. First, the act that you commit must constitute “grave matter.” When we speak about an act’s matter, we are referring to the degree of the wrongness of the act...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2128482400592782978</guid><category>Left</category><title>These 7 New Saints Are Arriving at Just the Right Time...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/seven-saints-october-2025-3vsmvffm</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The causes of saints usually take decades to reach canonization. It also happens that saints long in the making — or better, in the recognizing — arrive at the altar at exactly the right time. On Nov. 12, 1989, just days after the tearing open of the Berlin Wall, Pope St. John Paul II canonized St. Agnes of Prague, 700 years after her death, and John Paul’s 19th-century fellow Cracovian, Brother Albert Chmielowski...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1553564331233762306</guid><category>Center</category><title>The ‘gay-washed’ Bible’s imprimatur should be withdrawn. Here’s why.....</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/gay-washed-bible-again/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Peter Wolfgang)</author><description>I am grateful to OSV News for reporting on my concerns about the USCCB’s granting of an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) Bible. I appreciate USCCB Scripture scholar Father Pablo Gadenz responding directly to my concerns. But I found his responses unpersuasive, and I still think the imprimatur should be withdrawn, for the reasons below.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2984275103767839151</guid><category>Left</category><title>What may seem like a delay from God is often simply the unfolding of his perfect plan for you.....</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/10/what-may-seem-like-delay-from-god-is.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Are you waiting to find "the one?" The perfect job? Maybe just a general feeling of contentment in your life? God's timing is often (usually!) not our timing. So what can you do? Meet Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio—a man who built roads, made a fortune, and waited decades for his deepest prayer to be answered, but it didn't go quite like he envisioned it. His story is a powerful reminder...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7017638388169804237</guid><category>Center</category><title>Why Are There Different Numbering Systems for the Psalms?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/why-are-there-different-numbering-systems-for-the-psalms</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Most Catholics have had the experience of looking up a psalm, only to discover that the psalm number they’ve been given is different from the one printed in their Bible. This experience can be a source of confusion and frustration, and it raises some obvious questions: Why are there different numbering systems for the psalms? And which system is correct?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4811390203635304255</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Sunday: Prayer Changes You, Not God.....</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-prayer-changes-you-not-god-the-power-of-persistence</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Sunday’s Gospel begins, “Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.” It’s good to know this is about we who pray, not the God we pray to, because it is hard to see God in the story. The situation the parable describes is dire: a widow, who would have been utterly without status or resources in the ancient world, wants</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7045544425226011270</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Canonizes 7 New Saints, Including First From Venezuela and Papua New Guinea...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267259/pope-leo-xiv-canonizes-7-new-saints-including-first-from-venezuela-and-papua-new-guinea</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Courtney Mares)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV proclaimed seven new saints on Sunday before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, including the first saints from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea and a former Satanist who underwent a dramatic conversion to become an “apostle of the rosary.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8624443502199854513</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Appoints Cardinal Cupich to Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267159/pope-leo-xiv-appoints-cardinal-cupich-to-pontifical-commission-for-vatican-city-state</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, the Holy See said on Wednesday. The Vatican made the announcement via a press release on Oct. 15. The commission functions as the legislative body of Vatican City. In addition to managing the many functions and activities of the Vatican City government...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1147574677177117173</guid><category>Center</category><title>Your Home Is the Home of Responsibility...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/the-home-of-responsibility/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others than marriage and family. And a person learns to be responsible if others take responsibility for him, beginning in these basic relationships of human life...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9165987453483849904</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why Christ Won’t Let His Church Ordain Women...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-womens-ordination</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Larry Chapp)</author><description>Surrounded by a pagan culture that often had priestesses, the decision — by Judaism first, and then by Christ — to limit the priesthood to men is either the result of a mere patriarchal and cultural bias, or the product of a definitive theological decision with deeper meaning. When did Jesus ever make decisions in the Gospel that we can say are clear examples...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2642314248842316932</guid><category>Center</category><title>Reminder to Vatican ecumenists and diplomats: Patriarch Kirill is an old KGB hand who has abandoned Christian orthodoxy...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/russian-reset-required-in-rome</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James Billington, a distinguished historian of Russian culture, would host a small dinner for him. I was a guest on one such occasion, and the impression Kirill left that night remains in my mind...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5908178840898569624</guid><category>Left</category><title>Evidence of Mercy Amid the Madness...</title><link>https://catholicreview.org/evidence-of-mercy-amid-the-madness/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Elizabeth Scalia)</author><description>Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better word — to witness daily episodes of brutality and violence and, particularly over the past few months, horrendous killings. We were spared viewing the June slayings of Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the nightmarish shooting...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8148084020117712343</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Help Me Help Missionaries’: Pope Leo’s Historic Video Appeal...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/help-pope-leo-help-missionaries</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Roger Landry)</author><description>Earlier this week, Pope Leo did something no pope has ever done. He recorded a video message for World Mission Sunday, making a direct appeal to Catholics across the world to “help me help missionaries across the world.” The video is a little over a minute long, making it easy to share on social media, in parish and diocesan email blasts, on websites and other means...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6076034813247263599</guid><category>Left</category><title>Jim Caviezel’s Out, Jaakko Ohtonen’s In — Mel Gibson's ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Casts New Jesus, Mary Magdalene...</title><link>https://variety.com/2025/film/global/mel-gibson-resurrection-of-the-christ-new-jesus-mary-magdalene-1236552209/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Mel Gibson’s “The Resurrection of the Christ,” his long-delayed follow up to 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ,” has cast Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen (“The Last Kingdom”) in the role of Jesus, replacing original star Jim Caviezel.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3839506717752733816</guid><category>Center</category><title>2,000 Join Rosary Crusade Through Streets of London...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/pentin-london-rosary-crusade-2025-lh76qpcs</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Edward Pentin)</author><description>At least 2,000 faithful participated in an annual London Rosary Crusade of Reparation on Saturday — a notably large gathering that organizers hope reflects a fledgling revival of faith in England. Participants of all ages and backgrounds prayed the Rosary and sang hymns along the two-mile procession from Westminster Cathedral to the London Brompton Oratory...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8493535217217155563</guid><category>Left</category><title>How the Oct. 13, 1917, ‘Miracle of the Sun’ in Fátima Helped to End an Atheist Regime...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/36019/miracle-of-the-sun-broke-darkness-of-portugals-atheist-regimes</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Oct. 13, 1917, marked the last Marian apparition in Fátima and the day on which thousands of people bore witness to the miracle of the dancing sun — a miracle that shattered the prevalent belief at the time that God was no longer relevant. Marco Daniel Duarte, a theologian and director of the Fátima Shrine museums, shared with CNA the impact that the miracle of the sun made during those days in Portugal.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3113743448552662447</guid><category>Center</category><title>In US Religious Freedom Case, Supermax Prison to Install Bidet for Armless Terrorist Inmate’s Muslim Prayer Preparation...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267079/at-us-supermax-prison-foreign-born-muslim-with-no-arms-files-religious-liberty-suit</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A foreign-born Muslim inmate currently incarcerated in the U.S.’s most severely restrictive prison complex is asking the government to require the prison to accommodate his religious practices under a key federal statute, highlighting the far-reaching and comprehensive nature of religious freedom rules in the United States. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7934514518288953696</guid><category>Left</category><title>Contemplation and the Cross...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/10/11/contemplation-and-the-cross/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In Herodotus’ Histories from the 430s BC, we read of a wise Greek philosopher and political thinker, Solon. While traveling, Solon met the King of Lydia, Croesus, who was known for his immense wealth. Croesus asked the philosopher what he thought about his great riches and whether such wealth meant that he, Croesus, was the happiest man alive. To that, Solon replied that you can...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4615000776641581957</guid><category>Center</category><title>Yes, Christopher Columbus...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/10/13/yes-christopher-columbus/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Robert Royal)</author><description>Today is Columbus Day, or (among the alternatively oriented) Native Peoples’ Day, both displaced in any case, as even major Catholic feasts now are, to a different date, so that people will have long weekends, or not be inconvenienced, or something. In any event, it’s a day now redefined in terms that make it unclear what, if anything, we are celebrating, or deploring, in this booming, buzzing confusion that we still (kind of) think of as the twenty-first Christian century.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5803589454988186802</guid><category>Left</category><title>It’s Not Too Late: Why Adults Should Learn Latin and Ancient Greek...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/10/adults-latin-greek-anicent-language-institute-katherine-l-bradshaw.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>When it comes to ancient languages, many people seem to believe that there is an incredibly small window of opportunity for learning. I encounter this belief frequently, since I teach college-level Latin and ancient Greek through the Ancient Language Institute (ALI) – an online school that offers courses for adults and children in the classical languages, as well as adult courses in Biblical Hebrew and Old English...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8318216017518474255</guid><category>Center</category><title>Vatican Announces Formal Nomination of Judges in Father Rupnik Trial...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/vatican-announces-formal-nomination-of-judges-in-father-rupnik-trial/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Three months after Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said the Vatican had identified the judges who would form the tribunal in the canonical trial against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik on charges of spiritual and sexual abuse, the judges were formally nominated.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-172448351648959958</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo’s Augustinian community is drawing renewed interest. Here’s what makes it unique...</title><link>https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5469959/pope-leos-religious-community-is-drawing-renewed-interest-heres-what-makes-it-unique</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>When James Schloegel took his vows as an Augustinian friar this summer, he knelt before the altar in a Chicago church, surrounded by friends, family, and fellow friars. At 32, he had spent years discerning his calling to religious life — a journey rooted in prayer, spiritual study, and community.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2351231709636167080</guid><category>Center</category><title>How Should Catholics Understand the Rogue Exorcist in Mark 9?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/how-should-catholics-understand-the-rogue-exorcist-in-mark-9</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In Mark 9, we hear about a man unaffiliated with the disciples who casts out demons in Jesus’s name. This same episode is also recorded in Luke 9:49-50, while St. Matthew’s Gospel includes a variation on the warning Jesus delivers to His disciples: “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.” For Catholic readers of the Gospels, the exorcist passage raises some interesting questions...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1755984494160194774</guid><category>Left</category><title>Is There a Purpose to Religious Education?</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/there-purpose-religious-education</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>It can be understood with a sincerity of mind and heart that the purpose of education is to prepare the student to engage life. The entire educational establishment, based on a Judeo-Christian ethos, would focus on the spiritual and educational transformation of the student to help him respond to truth, beauty, and goodness. This premise presupposes that the educator views the student as a child of God...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5651361993530833327</guid><category>Center</category><title>Men Without Heads: The Real Crisis in Classical Education...</title><link>https://classicaledreview.substack.com/p/men-without-heads</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Classical K-12 education has a mind-heart problem. We know and love C. S. Lewis’s “Men without Chests,” and we find his analysis of the culture of British intelligentsia circa 1948 to be compelling. We laugh at the fatuous “sophistication” of the intellectual pygmies responsible for the Green Book; we chuckle at the mental picture of their tiny, anemic bodies attached to their oversized...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2913494270062969176</guid><category>Left</category><title>Dare Students Go Amish on the Topic of AI?</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/dare-students-go-amish-on-the-topic-of-ai/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Chad Engelland)</author><description>One of my family’s prized possessions is an Amish-made table fashioned from solid cherry wood, a souvenir from the decade we lived in the Amish country of northeast Ohio. It’s a thing of real beauty: The hand that made it was sure of its own skill. We loved that table so much we ordered a bedroom set from the same maker. 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