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The other day, a California TV station gave a heartbreaking glimpse at what is happening to thousands of people right now. It reported on an area near Pasadena known as “foreclosure alley” – a part of the state where 700 families a day are losing their homes. And it followed a cleanup crew going from…

The good folks at Our Sunday Visitor have just published a special vocations section — and Your Humble Blogger is prominently featured on the front page. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.) The link will take you to the menu, where you can download the section.

Some people might file this under the category of “Dog Bites Man” — not news, and not all that surprising. But it’s interesting that the subject of prayer and contemplation is generating some serious study. This comes from a Catholic website in the UK: Catholics feel less pain than atheists and agnostics after contemplating the…

“St. Francis of Assisi at Prayer”by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1645. Many people mistakenly think that St. Francis of Assisi must have been a priest. Nope. He was a deacon. On this, his feast, we are reminded of his spirit of diakonia in these beautiful words, from one of his letters: We must not be wise…
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