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Father Terrence P. Ryan, CSP | 08/24/15

Two people go on a contemplative prayer retreat. At the end of the retreat, one says, “I am so disappointed. I was bored, restless, full...

Father Francis P. DeSiano, CSP | 08/20/15

Julian Bond’s death last Sunday ended a rich, action-filled and effective life. As the radio listed all the things he was involved in, right up...

Father Terrence P. Ryan, CSP | 08/17/15

The culture wars in this country reveal a lot of division. Election politics will play on this. There will be talk of the need to...

Father Lawrence A. Rice, CSP | 08/13/15

“So you aren’t going to be a Paulist? Great!” That may seem like an odd reaction for a vocations director. In working through a process...

Father Terrence P. Ryan, CSP | 08/11/15

There is a long history of saying something or someone is not human so that we can be rid of it. When the first settlers...

Father John J. Geaney, CSP | 08/10/15

The boat is called Wayfinder. I sailed on it a week ago yesterday in the waters off Howth in Ireland. It was a perfect Irish...

Father Terrence P. Ryan, CSP | 08/05/15

I like this term, “media literacy.” Most of us are media illiterate in some area. We believe something because of its source. We are pretty...

Father John J. Geaney, CSP | 08/03/15

The cathedral parish, like so many others, is coming closer to the end of summer and the beginning of school. (Say it isn’t so!) I...

Father Terrence P. Ryan, CSP | 07/27/15

We all get hungry physically for food, or at least I do. If I don’t eat at certain intervals, I get hungry. I think of...

Father Francis P. DeSiano, CSP | 07/24/15

A little joke from The New Yorker a few weeks ago: A priest, a surgeon, and an engineer are playing golf. In front of them...

Father Francis P. DeSiano, CSP | 07/16/15

Much attention has been placed on the police these days. But before them it was teachers. And before them it was clergy. And before them...

Stuart A. Wilson-Smith, CSP | 07/13/15

With a closing Mass on Sunday, June 28, The Paulist Fathers officially concluded service at St. Peter’s Church and the Catholic Information Centre in Toronto,...