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Lent with the Saints: Anthony of Padua

March 26, 2020
Exodus 32:7–14; Psalm 106:19–20, 21–22, 23; John 5:31–47 Before he became the “go-to” saint for finding lost objects, St. Anthony of Padua had another nickname: “The Hammer of Heretics.”
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St. Francis and the Taming of the Wolf

February 6, 2020
This beloved story has a lot to teach us about peacemaking in our own times.
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Will I See My Pet in Heaven?

February 4, 2020
The creation story of Genesis suggests that God’s care and love extend to all creatures.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Franciscan Martyr

January 29, 2020
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

January 27, 2020
Pope John Paul II canonized Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in Rome on October 10, 1982.
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Raising Saints: A Message for Parents

November 6, 2019
I once heard a priest refer to everyone he met as a “saint.”
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