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Is This Sacred?

It was a loud, almost raucous, crowd that had assembled in the large building. Today would mark a major moment in their lives. Soon the man who would preside over the festivities stepped out onto the raised platform and asked his audience, “Is...

Thomas Addis
2 minutes ago
Faith

And So We Have Before Us a Miracle

The first millennial to be canonized a saint was the Italian teenager, Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at the age of fifteen in 2006, just twenty years ago. At the age of six he made his First Communion, and from then on was a daily communicant...

Fr Joseph Esper
1 day ago
Faith

Becoming Saints

Do you want to become saints? Here is the secret: confession is the lock; confidence in your confessor is the key. This is how you open heaven’s gates. St John Bosco (1815-88) According to The Catechism of the Catholic Church, those who receive the...

Deacon Steve Greco
2 days ago

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Faith

And So We Have Before Us a Miracle

The first millennial to be canonized a saint was the Italian teenager, Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at the age of fifteen in 2006, just twenty years ago. At the age of six he made his First Communion, and from...

Fr Joseph Esper
1 day ago
Culture

War is Hell

Union General and future President Ulysses S. Grant was absolutely correct when he described war as Hell, a literal place of fire and brimstone. I have already explored the reasons there have been very few years in...

William Borst
6 days ago
Faith

Becoming Saints

Do you want to become saints? Here is the secret: confession is the lock; confidence in your confessor is the key. This is how you open heaven’s gates. St John Bosco (1815-88) According to The Catechism of the Catholic...

Deacon Steve Greco
2 days ago
Faith

Is This Sacred?

It was a loud, almost raucous, crowd that had assembled in the large building. Today would mark a major moment in their lives. Soon the man who would preside over the festivities stepped out onto the raised platform and...

Thomas Addis
2 minutes ago
Faith

Fear No One

Fear no one! (Matthew 10:26) This statement from Jesus can be better understood if taken together with what is written in the preceding verses. In colorful yet mysterious tones, Jesus conveys in them the notion of the...

Fr Dino Vanin
5 days ago

Reflections- From Our Archives

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Faith

Is This Sacred?

It was a loud, almost raucous, crowd that had assembled in the large building. Today would mark a major moment in their lives. Soon the man who would preside over the festivities stepped out onto the raised platform and...

Thomas Addis
2 minutes ago
Faith

Becoming Saints

Do you want to become saints? Here is the secret: confession is the lock; confidence in your confessor is the key. This is how you open heaven’s gates. St John Bosco (1815-88) According to The Catechism of the Catholic...

Deacon Steve Greco
Faith

What Can We Do to Help Change Things?

Once upon a time there was a woman who was very proud of the fact that she greatly wanted peace in the world and an end to all warfare and violence, crime, family divisions, hunger, poverty, disease, and every other...

Fr Joseph Esper
1 week ago
Faith

The Time is Now

The expression “pity party” gained widespread use during the latter part of the twentieth century. Perhaps you’ve been to one, as I know I have. With just one attendee, it is a party where we dwell upon our own...

Deacon Kurt Godfryd
Faith

Holiness Off the Beaten Path: Helena Kmieć

Helena Kmieć comes from Libiąż, a town west of Kraków. Poles have only a vague sense of where it is. Let us be honest: most Australians and Americans’ knowledge of Europe becomes hazy beyond Italy, Germany, and France...

Paul Suski
2 weeks ago
Faith

Divine DNA

Is it true that “we are what we eat?” It depends on what one means by it, I guess; but it is true for those who heed Jesus’ challenging words: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks by blood remains in me and I in him. (Jn...

Fr Dino Vanin