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This year is leap year and so February 2020 has 29 days. The extra day we get approximately once every four years is a way to adapt the calendar year to the astronomical year. The present system of calculating the leap years was designed around fixing the date of Easter. (CNS photo/Rosanna Aguilera, San Angelo Standard-Times via Reuters)

Leap year’s extra day has a Catholic origin

Posted by - March 1, 2020
BOSTON (CNS) — The extra day we get approximately once every four years is a way to adapt the calendar year to the astronomical year. But did you know the…
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A grandmother who has been part of a Catholic Relief Services' program for family nutrition shares her lunch with her youngest of seven grandchildren in the kitchen of the family home in Konjiko, Kenya, May 1, 2019. Lenten alms donated through the CRS Rice Bowl program support the agency's work in roughly 45 different countries. (CNS photo/Georgina Goodwin for Catholic Relief Services)

Almsgiving: An overshadowed Lenten pillar has something to say

Posted by - March 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When it comes to the three pillars of Lent, almsgiving is a little bit like the middle child, not always getting the attention that prayer and fasting…
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Children are seen helping prepare a family meal at their home. A new reflection guide created by the Archdiocese of Detroit's Department of Evangelization, Catechesis and Schools seeks to offer families a way to spend the Lord's day together in prayer by focusing on the Scriptures, family conversations and meals together. The program, called 52 Sundays, is available in book form or online at 52Sundays.com. (CNS photo/Melissa Moon, Detroit Catholic)

In Detroit, families begin to see Sundays as a day of rest, togetherness

Posted by - March 1, 2020
DETROIT (CNS) — There’s no such thing as the perfect Catholic family. Days of joy, celebration and happiness can be followed by challenges, heartbreak and, at times, chaos brought on…
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Carlo Acutis, who was born in 1991 in London and died in 2006 in Monza, Italy, is pictured in an undated photo. Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of the 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today.(CNS photo/courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo Acutis)

Pope recognizes miracle in sainthood cause of young tech whiz

Posted by - March 1, 2020
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model…
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