Colleen Carroll Campbell’s new book is full of insight into what motivates us to attempt to reach holiness through our own strength and how this obsession holds us back from spiritual progress.
Saints
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Saint Teresa of Avila’s agony and ecstasy
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila is termed an “autohagiography,” a self-justification of saintliness, by Carlos Eire, a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University.
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Blessed John Henry Newman letters and diaries to be released ahead of his canonization
The first of 250,000 folios of letters and photographs preserved at the oratory were published for the first time, under a digitization program co-organized by the National Institute for Newman Studies in Pittsburgh.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What today’s college students can learn from St. Augustine
St. Augustine has much to teach us about the meritocracy and recent college admissions bribery scandals.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How St. John Baptist de La Salle brought education to millions of poor kids like me
Who was this brilliant, saintly priest who founded the Christian Brothers? Perhaps now, on the 300th anniversary of his death, it is time for those of us who have benefited so richly from our educations to remember who he was.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
St. Anthony festival in Boston celebrates 100 years
The annual weekend-long spectacle began in 1919 with Italian immigrants from the small village of Montefalcione in Avellino. Organizers say it is the largest Italian religious festival in New England.
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Why more U.S. Catholics should know about St. Alberto Hurtado, S.J.
We often make a distinction between charity and justice. This 20th-century Chilean saint practiced both.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
To be a Christian is to live in patient expectation
You cannot be a Christian and not live an eschatological life, which is to say, you must live one marked by a patient expectation in the promise and plan of Jesus.
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Boys Town founder, Father Flanagan, advances on path to sainthood
The sainthood cause of Father Edward J. Flanagan took a step forward July 22 with the presentation of the “positio” to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, along with a letter of support from Omaha Archbishop George J. Lucas.
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Mother Cabrini’s ministry to immigrants called ‘more essential’ than ever
St. Francis Xavier Cabrini took to heart Jesus’ greatest commandment to love God and love one’s neighbor by tending to those most in need — children, the sick, orphans and “most of all” immigrants, said New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan July 13.