Failing Successfully The New York Times recently reported on the trend among some elite colleges to host courses and seminars on failure. As these schools tend to welcome the nation’s best and brightest graduating high school seniors, many of these students [...]
Consecrated Life vs. Marriage Is one really more holy than the other? There was a time when I believed that a vocation to the consecrated life was superior to, and holier than, the state of matrimony. After all, St. Paul [...]
In the closing pages of his book American Church, Russell Shaw describes the “New Evangelization”: "The key to new evangelization as a high priority of a new American Catholic subculture isn't institutions and programs...Where to begin? It has to start [...]
The Founder of the Visitation Sisters, Bishop St. Francis de Sales, held deep theological positions on the concept of freedom. We will manifest his thinking during the “Fortnight for Freedom” through Fr. Eunan McDonnell’s book, The Concept of Freedom in [...]
Recently I met with two men who are recent college grads - one who is thinking of entering religious life and one who is engaged to be married. Both are great guys and, as I listened, both had the same [...]
