[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] “[A]t the end of the [Second Vatican] Council the Fathers addressed a greeting and an appeal to artists: ‘This world—they said—in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, […]
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] [Blessed Edmund Bojanowski] is remembered as a good man with a big heart, who for love of God and neighbor was able to bring different sectors together, effectively rallying them around a common good. In his many-faceted activity, he anticipated much of what the Second Vatican Council said about the apostolate of the
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] When we celebrate the lives of the saints in the liturgy, it reminds us about the importance of following in the footsteps of the saints who have gone before us. For example, Saint Ignatius of Loyola is famous for his conversion that was the result of reading the lives of the saints. Here is a brief
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] “The call to marriage is also a vocation,a gift from God. I will never forget a young man, an engineering student in Kraków, who everyone knew aspired with determination to holiness. This was his life plan. He knew he had been ‘created for great things,’ as Saint Stanislaus Kostka once expressed it. And
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[featured-image] It is clear today that, for young people, saints are fascinating—think of Francis of Assisi and José of Anchieta, Juan Diego and Theresa of the Child Jesus, Rose of Lima and Bakhita, Kisito and Maria Goretti, Father Kolbe and Mother Theresa and the theatrical works, films, comic strips, recitals, concerts and muscials that re-create
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Source – Richard Dorrell[/featured-image] On Wednesday, January 9, 1918, Josemaría [Escriva] turned sixteen. The city of Logroño lay peaceful under a heavy snowfall. The temperature hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit. No one went out unless they absolutely had to. On one of those wintry days the young man looked down at the snow and saw
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] As a part of a series of interviews with a number of prominent bloggers, artists, writers and others who love J.R.R. Tolkien and the realm he “sub-created,” Mr. Joseph Pearce was gracious enough to take time out of his day to answer a few questions on Tolkien and even offer a few comments
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