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No Easter without Good Friday

by Joseph Nangle, OFMPax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace Even when he was president, Jimmy Carter was known for conducting Sunday school classes in local Washington churches. A person who had attended one of the president’s sessions reported that at one of these he posed this question: what was the distinctive feature of Our Lord … Continue reading No Easter without Good Friday

Francis and the 2,000-year old Church

by Joseph Nangle, OFMPax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace “There is not, and there never was on earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization … The papacy remains not in decay, not … Continue reading Francis and the 2,000-year old Church