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By Christine Stoddard
“If I could have only a sliver of the impact St. Teresa of Ávila had for Jesus, I would consider my life’s work worthwhile.” Those were the words of Colleen Carroll Campbell, the accomplished print and EWTN journalist who authored the award-winning book, My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir. The book chronicles how connecting […]
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By Christine Stoddard
If spending a weekend meditating on your spiritual journey seems like a rare luxury, consider the value your stories may hold one day for your children, your grandchildren and future generations. That’s what Colleen Duffy Kiko and MaryBeth Piccinino, organizers of the Sept. 11-13 Faithbooking Retreat at San Damiano Spiritual Life Center in White Post, […]
Global
By Dale Gavlak
FUHEIS, Jordan – A papal envoy and top Mideast Catholic leaders, including the patriarchs of Iraq and Jerusalem, reminded the world that the persecuted Christians of Iraq are not to be forgotten or abandoned. The appeal came at a prayer service expressing solidarity with Iraqi Christian refugees made homeless a year ago by Islamic State […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Selfishness and fear keep too many people ignorant of the suffering of others and prevent them from finding creative ways to express solidarity and to promote peace, said a statement from the Vatican’s justice and peace office. To promote a reflection on the need for a “conversion of mind and heart” open […]
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By Ashleigh Buyers
In 1862, a diocesan priest from Belgium, Father Theophile Verbist, was inspired to bring the Gospel to the people of China. Motivated by this goal, he formed the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary – Missionhurst. To this day, these missionaries travel the world to reach out to the most neglected people. Their mission […]
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By Stacy Rausch
Sister Deirdre “Dede” Mary Byrne has spent her life serving others while wearing multiple uniforms. Whether it was military fatigues while a Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps; scrubs in an operating room or on a missionary trip as a general surgeon; or the traditional black habit of the Little Workers of the Sacred […]
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By Soren Johnson
About the time the Planned Parenthood videos first started breaking, I was immersed in reading about one of my heroes, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Historian Michael Nicholson’s The Gulag Archipelago: A Survey of Soviet Responses allowed me to glimpse the details of how Solzhenitsyn’s bombshell book on the Soviet prison camp system ripped through Soviet daily life. […]
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By Christine Stoddard
According to University of Virginia Sociology Professor and National Marriage Project Director W. Bradford Wilcox, instead of teaching children and teens that adult happiness lies in education and career success, we should encourage them to find meaning and purpose in marriage and family first. Wilcox was speaking at “Why Marriage (Still) Matters,” an Aug. 8 […]
Global
By Lou Baldwin
PHILADELPHIA – It is a general custom at the annual Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus that the head of the diocese or archdiocese where the convention is held celebrates the opening Mass. This year in Philadelphia for the Aug. 4-6 convention the Knights got a twofer, because Philadelphia happens to have two sitting […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
I realize that, in polite society, it is considered hyperbolic and disrespectful and just downright bad form to compare any of our current social evils to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. Whatever misdeeds we in America may commit, they cannot possibly compare to the horrifying evil that Hitler and his minions inflicted on Europe before […]
