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St. Anthony of Padua

St. Anthony, Help Me Find…Beauty

St. Anthony of Padua, that Hammer of Heretics, serves as a model to me that I am to preach against any dualism within myself that blocks an openness to beauty.
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Lent with the Saints | Thomas More

Lent with the Saints: Thomas More

Thomas More was a scholar, author, lawyer, family man, and chancellor of England.
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Lent with the saints

Lent with the Saints: Do You Want to Be a Saint?

Joel 2:12–18; Psalm 51:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 17; 2 Corinthians 5:20—6:2; Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18
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Woman making a heart out of light | Photo by Rhand McCoy on Unsplash

Love Letters From God

Viewing Scripture as “love letters from God” causes us to pause and reconsider the significance of the Bible in our personal and communal lives of faith.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Franciscan Martyr

On July 30, 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi camp in Poland...
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People walk in dense fog in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp during ceremonies in late January marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day in in Oswiecim, Poland. (CNS photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)

St. Maximilian Kolbe: A Life of Heroic Love

Pope John Paul II canonized Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in Rome on October 10, 1982.
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Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century

Radical Saints: Marianne Cope

Marianne Cope listened only to God, accepting and caring for people others feared or found distasteful and putting her own health at risk.
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