The Paschal Mystery and Vocations in the Church Today

Acts 2:14, 36-41; 1Pet 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 I was rather taken aback by the response I received from a friend when I told her that I was going to the seminary to begin my priestly and religious formation. She said to me something like this, “Catholic priesthood in this time of the most repulsive clergy […]

Guardians of the Garden: The Role and Responsibility of Men

“By delving deeply into the mines and chasms of self, man discovers his deficiencies and his incessant longing for the coefficient, his emptiness and his desire to be full, and his hope to love another and be loved by another,” writes Devin Schadt in The Meaning and Mystery of Man. Rather than a self-help book, […]

“From shadows and images into the truth”

As we move closer to the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension, the Church invites us to identify with the sentiments of the Apostles as they faced the eventuality of Christ’s departure from them in a […]