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St. Charles Borromeo and the key principles of Catholic reform

November 4, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 20

The Catholic Counter-Reformation of the second-half of the sixteenth century had many important protagonists. One of the men who did the most to advance the cause of reform on the practical level was St. Charles […]

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I will see you there: Reflections on the universal call to holiness

May 14, 2021 Rob Marco 18

A couple years ago my then seven-year-old son fell from a not-insignificant height. It was the kind of fall on the playground where all the kids (and adults) turn and hold their breath, when time […]

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The temptation and the challenge of reading “Gaudete et exsultate”

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Whatever else there is to say about the document and regardless of one’s personal, spiritual, or intellectual disposition toward Pope Francis, it is fair to […]

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