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Some notes worth noting about the latest study:  "As for the top pastoral priorities of American priests, they are: youth and young adu...

 section 14: The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, Is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those w...

I join Amy Welborn in her annnual lament : the prayer attributed to St. Francis was written by WWI pacifists, and it had nothing to do with ...

The beginning of Autumn is a time of thinness . The veil wisps between living and dead, between harvest and serried fields, between abundan...

Calling on the name of Mary, our mother, is invoking one who loves with a mother’s love and to invoke the intercession of someone familiar w...

 Both Pier Giorgio and Carlo cultivated their love for God and for their brothers and sisters through simple acts, available to everyone: da...

The dystopian future described so articulately by Charles Camosy in this article has already arrived: At first, it will no doubt be the wea...

A beautiful reflection after the tragic news from Minneapolis: By all appearances, this seems to be a new kind of terrorism. It is not anima...

 from the Assumption to today's memorial- we honor Our Lady of Knock- Queen of Peace, pray for us! draw us into the Communion of Saints!

Read the whole thing, but it is always interesting to find one's name in a church document:  “To enlighten our pastoral discernment, we ...

from The Pillar post for the Assumption : Isidore Bakanja was born in a tribal village on the Congo River in Africa, in territory then occup...

When Newman converted to Catholicism in 1845 and prepared for priestly ordination thereafter, he discovered in the Oratory of St. Philip Ner...

The enemy would like us to despair, trapped in the belief that “this” - whatever drought or suffering we’re in -  will never end. But our li...