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Mother Teresa: Witness of modern-day holiness

By John Garvey
Blessed Teresa of Kolkata came to The Catholic University of America 45 years ago to receive her first honorary degree. If I’d been president of our school at the time I would have tried hard to get a picture of her in a Catholic University sweatshirt.  I do have a lovely picture of my predecessor […]
8/19/16
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In pursuit of human perfection

By Russell Shaw
I’d been running into references to the book every now and then for years. People told me I really ought to read it. But somehow I never got around to that. Then a friend forced my hand by buying a copy and sending it to me. No excuses now, so I sat down and read. […]
8/18/16
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The golden door

By Fr. Stanley J. Krempa
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. These words from Emma Lazarus’ poem, engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty, might seem to some people […]
8/16/16
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Johnson looking up

By Soren Johnson
A friend and I jog regularly through Arlington, recently named “America’s most walkable suburb” and the “best place to live” in the country. And yet, in this supposed paragon community: nobody is looking up.   On a recent jog, we passed 55 people walking or jogging in the opposite direction. I greeted them each with […]
8/10/16
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Create a new ritual

By Elizabeth Foss
It’s that time of year in the life of a family when calendar squares begin to fill. Pencils in hand (because things change and it’s not quite time for pens yet), we grid in the soccer schedule, the “first day of” dates, the fall birthdays, the auditions, the new lessons. When finished, we stare in […]
8/10/16
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Stop the yielding

By Fr. Matthew H. Zuberbueler
When we are attentive to the words and teachings of Jesus, we grow accustomed to hearing things which strike us as strong. Today we hear Jesus saying that he came to set the earth on fire and to bring division instead of peace to the earth and to families. It isn’t necessary for us to […]
8/10/16
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Looking up

By Soren Johnson
A friend and I jog regularly through Arlington, recently named “America’s most walkable suburb” and the “best place to live” in the country. And yet, in this supposed paragon community: nobody is looking up. On a recent jog, we passed 55 people walking or jogging in the opposite direction. I greeted them each with eye […]
8/10/16
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St. Radegunde: A patron saint against drowning

By Thomas J. Craughwell
St. Radegunde (518-587) Feast day: Aug. 13 Not long after St. Radegunde died in 587, one of her servants was deep-sea fishing when a storm came up suddenly and giant waves swamped his boat. Before the poor man even had a chance to start bailing, his boat filled with water and sank. As the terrified […]
8/8/16
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Al Smith, the ‘Happy Warrior’

By Russell Shaw
Eighty-eight years ago a “happy warrior” from the streets of New York ran for president of the United States. His name was Al Smith, and he deserves to be remembered now as another bitter presidential campaign enters its decisive phase. In writing my new book Catholics in America (Ignatius Press) profiling 15 prominent Catholics who […]
8/4/16
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Faith in Jesus transforms our lives

By Fr. Jack Peterson, Ya
A young person from one of our Youth Apostle programs explained his faith journey this way: “When I was young, I went to church with my family but my faith in God was not very important to me. In high school, I came to know Jesus personally through my youth group and my life has […]
8/2/16
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