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I’ve just been so edified by the faith of the members and just how they live their life, their family lives, and seeing their love for the Lord and their love for the Church grow.

The Crawfords, who have been married for 19 years and have four children, discussed their private tours in the Sistine Chapel and their meeting with a saint’s daughter in an interview with Legatus magazine.

Through faith and selfless sacrifice, Doss fully gave himself up to God’s will, unconditionally, and at all costs. Beautifully said in John 15:13: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

The study looked at 261 successful mifepristone reversals and demonstrated reversal success rates of 64-68 percent with the protocols, significantly better than the 25 percent survival when no treatment is offered.

Edith Stein was one amazing woman in early 20th-century Germany. She was an intellectual — earning a doctorate in philosophy — at a time when advanced studies were uncommon for women, particularly Jewish women.

His focus here is on “diagnosis, not prescription,” yet there is a theme of hope: Catholics can help restore proper order if we remain faithful to the truth and to our mission as “the light of the world.”

There is a reciprocal relationship between virtue and acts. Virtue disposes us to act in morally good ways, and by doing good acts, the virtue within us is strengthened and grows.

“That was now my rosary that I used to ask the Lord to help me,” said Frank Kravetz, resident of a Nuremberg prison camp he called simply the Nazi “hell-hole.”

Most Catholic priests who serve the military today fall into two categories. Either they are military chaplains (active duty, reserve, or National Guard) or they are civilians who meet the demands of a contracted or GS position.

We make a mistake when we try to steer others into business careers, if our rationale is focused strictly on practicality.

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born as Edith Stein into a prominent Jewish family in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland).

When I think of our veterans, I have a special appreciation for the chaplains.

What He asks of us, in belief and through our life’s example, is frequently derided and invalidated, not just by nonbelievers – which we’d expect – but by family and friends, colleagues, even other Catholics.

Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, had its cinematic debut in 2016 and was released on DVD and Blu-Ray last year. Now available through Ignatius Press, it takes its place alongside other gritty-but-inspiring modern war films based on true stories in the tradition of We Were Soldiers and Saving Private Ryan.

Anti-Catholic bigotry kept the sole priest-chaplain from ministering to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, but priests have served as U.S. military chaplains ever since two Jesuits were so assigned during the War with Mexico in 1845.