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2016

The Call to Follow Christ: St. John Paul II on Disability

| Thomas Eggleston and Anna Eggleston

It is a great joy for me to be able to begin speaking to you in such a beautiful way: brothers and sisters. Indeed all of us are children of the same Father, beloved and redeemed by God through Christ. Because of this, no one should be c...

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Confessions of a Post-RadTrad Millennial: The Perfect Sacrifice

| Novice Joseph Wagner, O.S.B.

I grew up in a parish that was very much steeped in the “Spirit of Vatican II”: our priests used glass chalices, wore their stoles over their chasubles, and there wasn’t a Sunday in Ordinary Time when we didn’t sw...

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Snowfall in August

| Danielle Peters

Imagine a quick snowfall on an otherwise brutally hot day in August. By all accounts, that’s exactly what happened on the morning of August 5, 352 upon the Esquiline Hill in Rome! Legend tells us that a childless aristocratic coupl...

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Thoughts on a Theology of Teaching: You Give Them Something to Eat

| M. Joseph Pedersen, C.S.C.

When I found out that I got a job teaching high school theology, I began to ask all of the teachers I knew what advice they had for me. I heard all kinds of things about classroom management and lesson plan preparation. However, the one ...

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The Universality and Idiosyncrasy of Sainthood

| Danielle Nussberger

Every saint is idiosyncratic. On the face of it, this seems so self-evident that we might wonder why it even needs to be said. Of course, St. Ignatius of Antioch is different from St. Ignatius of Loyola. Obviously, St. Teresa of Ávi...

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Magdalene and the Problem of Hope

| Anthony J. Oleck

Last month, Pope Francis announced that the liturgical celebration of St. Mary Magdalene would be raised from Memorial to Feast, an attempt to honor the “Apostle to the Apostles” and the first witness of the Resurrection...

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The Liturgy: Work of the Holy Trinity

| Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B.

It is well known that the reforms of the liturgy associated with Vatican II had as their goal greater participation on the part of all. Many things changed in the external celebration of the rites designed to facilitate this, and those c...

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