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11/13/12

"Lack of hope is the most ordinary fault of religious people. We sin more against hope than any other virtue."

Stefani Manowski | 11/12/12

It caught him by surprise: It was something he never thought would be enjoyable before his ordination to the Paulist priesthood in May. But for...

Father Thomas Ryan, CSP | 11/06/12

Feedback from others can affirm behaviors we try to live and provide motivation for altering those with which we do not wish to be associated....

11/05/12

"Love is only perfect when the lover is lost irremediably in the beloved, 'I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.' (Song of Songs...

Stefani Manowski | 11/05/12

Father Ivan Tou, CSP, pastor of St. Lawrence Church and Newman Center in Minneapolis (left), and Bishop Lee Piche of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis...

10/29/12

"Jesus our Saviour fell oftentimes with the excessive weight of his cross, in order to show us that He has not called us to enjoy...

Stefani Manowski | 10/22/12

It was a throwback to the school bazaars of their childhood for Sarah and Rebecca Ireland, both students at the University of Toronto. The sisters...

10/22/12

"We ought to read spiritual books not to find out some new or easy way to arrive at perfection but to find helps to go...

10/22/12

"Man is a dependent being and cannot live of himself alone. Without loving something the soul would not exist."

Father Thomas Ryan, CSP | 10/18/12

Dialogue and Catholic identity was at the heart of Georgetown University’s October 11-12 conference celebrating Vatican II After Fifty Years. “Only in the mid-20th century did...

Father Thomas Ryan, CSP | 10/15/12

Father Thomas Ryan, C.S.P. In the mid-19th century, Paulist founder Father Isaac Hecker’s vision was to make America Catholic. But as Father Frank DeSiano, CSP,...

10/09/12

"God is God and upon this evident fundamental truth, all true spiritual life, in the last analysis exists, and all true hope is based."