The expression is everywhere in Christian circles. We hear it said in churches. We say it at the dinner table. We offer one when someone sneezes. Even non-believers claim it. "We're blessed." "God ...

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Blessed Karl of Austria died in 1922. He was the last Emperor of Austria and the last Apostolic King of Hungary. One would not think that this man would have much in common with young Catholics in the ...

Luke 11:27-28 (RSV) As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” [28] But he said, “Blessed rather are ...