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“Every day has its own Annunciation”

November 6, 2019 Derya M. Little 2

In Night’s Bright Darkness, Sally Read chronicles how the Lord brought her from atheism to the fullness of the Catholic Church. Yet the conversion is just the beginning of a journey that affects countless around […]

The Dispatch

Earthen vessels and surpassing power

June 7, 2019 Fr. Charles Fox 3

“But we hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.” — 2 Corinthians 4:7 One Saturday afternoon, I was hearing confessions at my regular weekend […]

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New book by two Dominicans aims to help men discern religious vocations

June 3, 2019 CWR Staff 7

Fr. Benedict Croell, O.P., and Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., are co-authors of A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life, recently published by Vianney Vocations. Fr. Croell served as novice master for four years […]

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Saint Benedict’s wise words on avoiding “the zeal of bitterness”

March 21, 2019 Aquae Regiae 13

“Sicut est zelus amaritudinis malus qui separat a Deo et ducit ad infernum, ita est zelus bonus qui separat a vitia et ducit ad Deum et ad vitam aeternam.”  – Regula Benedicti, LXXII. Just as there […]

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The “useless” doctor of Lourdes

February 11, 2019 Father Seán Connolly 9

“There is no other place in the Catholic world with so much suffering, and yet with so much joy, as Lourdes,” says Dr. Alessandro de […]

Interview

A “tough guy” priest, in the gulag and beyond

September 17, 2017 Jim Graves 7

Father Walter Ciszek is known for his courage while imprisoned in the Soviet Union. But his spiritual writings show him to be “a saint of […]

Interview

The 400-year-old Marian apparition that is particularly relevant today

June 7, 2017 Jim Graves 20

Southern California apologist Matthew Arnold, author and founder of the Catholic apologetics organization Pro Multis Media, has placed his apostolate under the patronage of Our Lady of Good Success, a little-known apparition of Mary to […]

The Dispatch

Death comes like a thief in the night

March 24, 2017 Dorothy Cummings McLean 2

On March 7, at about 9 p.m., my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The doctor didn’t know if it was malignant, but as it had caused a blockage of fluid, Mark would have […]

Books

A “Wounded Healer” offers guidance for wounded Catholics

March 23, 2017 Edward N. Peters 0

Two things will strike readers of Fr. Thomas Berg’s Hurting in the Church: first, that this book needed to be written at all, for who could have ever believed that so much hurt could have been […]

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