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In the Hands of the Laity: Part II

Todd Federici July 13, AD2025 4 Comments

 Read Part I of In the Hands of the Laity Who’s going to save our Church?  It’s not our bishops, it’s not our priests and

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window, view, neighbor, dove, flower

Is Virginity Better Than Marriage?

Rory Fox May 7, AD2022 17 Comments

The Council of Trent (1545–63) said: “If any one says . . . that it is not better and more blessed to remain in virginity,

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Our Personal Vocation Looks For Us

Daniel Mark September 2, AD2020 4 Comments

I remember once in high school I wanted to make the basketball team. I was not that good, and I was told to go running

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The Domestic Church’s ‘Year of the Interior Life’

Loreto Xavier May 24, AD2020 5 Comments

Even though Catholic life in the United States is gradually beginning to bloom again as we return to ‘normal’, the faithful will always treasure the

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women, woman

The Other Side of a Vocation Story

Trish Irvine March 2, AD2018 1 Comment

I have prayed the Prayer for Vocations a couple thousand times and yet it wasn’t until fourteen years ago that it struck a chord. There

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Catholic Identity Politics and Vocation in the Age of Trump

Patrick Malone May 22, AD2017 2 Comments

Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what

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Vocations, Lifestyles, and Doing God’s Will

Todd Nolan January 19, AD2017 3 Comments

Today’s society is more preoccupied with encouraging its members to pursue attitudes and careers that lead to personal, self-gratifying fulfillment, rather than the universal, selfless

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The Cultural Emasculinization I Saw Hiking

Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC November 11, AD2016 19 Comments

I was visiting my family a while back. One day, my sister and I went out to the mountains for a hike up Johnston Canyon

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St. Joseph, Jesus, infant Jesus, father, parent

I Still Don’t Understand My Vocation To Fatherhood

Cullen Herout February 16, AD2016 4 Comments

It was 5:15 in the afternoon. I had been pacing around the room rocking a fussy baby for about a half hour. The last ten minutes

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Vocations: The Elijah\’s Cup

Michelle Fritz June 11, AD2014 7 Comments

At our parish, we have a beautiful practice that our priest instituted when he came five years ago. Each Sunday a family is asked to

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