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By Janet Meyer, Catholic Stand - In 2016, images of Discalced Carmelite Sister Cecilia Maria were spread throughout the internet. She died painfully of cancer on June 23 at the age of 42. Take a look at the pictures. She does not appear to be suffering; instead, her face shows the beauty of true joy and inestimable courage as she waits to meet Jesus.

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - The kingship of Christ essentially means that Jesus Christ, God Himself, has "supreme and absolute dominion over all things created," as Pope Pius XI wrote. There is no "difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ. In him is the salvation of the individual, in him is the salvation of society."

By Fr. John Portavella, Catholic Exchange - No sooner had Adam and Eve fallen into sin than they hid themselves from the Maker whose presence they had enjoyed up to that moment, “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and the wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden” (Gen. 3:8). Significantly, it was not the Almighty who hid; our first parents did.

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - But the picture of her in that dress went viral on the Internet, passed around by people angry at her “cultural appropriation.”  “My culture is not your prom dress,” wrote one angry respondent, a comment whose syntax I still haven’t been able to sort out, since it seems to me, logically speaking, a dress is not a “culture” anyway.