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Berni Neal, among the newest members of Legatus’ board of governors, jokes that she and her husband, Rob, flipped a coin to see who would stay home when they decided to raise their family on one income.

I visit restaurants, speak with community leaders, and invite chefs into my kitchen to share what unites us all – faith and food. This has enabled me to learn much about the struggles many endured to become American while holding onto their culture and ethnic beginnings.

A textual epilogue tells the best part of the story: Zamperini becomes a Christian evangelist, founds a camp for disadvantaged boys, and stays married to Cynthia for 54 years (she died in 2001). It’s disappointing that an Italian Catholic boy strays from his childhood faith, but one can appreciate the rediscovery that leads him from the horrors of war to renewed hope, from the darkness of despair into the light of faith.

The thesis of this fine book not only supports that faith and reason are allies in seeking the fullness of truth, but reveals how this collaboration takes place in practice, examining classic and contemporary questions about God and science using both “wings.”

This book offers a plan by which individuals might be led to contemplate their calling and whereby Church leaders, teachers, coaches, and other mentors might guide young people toward discerning and living out their own personal vocation.

“This book describes my personal discovery of the Catholic teaching on marriage and the beautiful effect it had on my life,” EWTN’s popular radio and TV host, Dr. Anders, writes in his introduction.

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the greatest service that we can offer our neighbor is to know the truth, to speak the truth.

The examen will sometimes highlight areas for improvement, but it’s really not about what you’re doing. It’s about what God is doing in your life.

What is truth? If the asking of this question is not at the heart of a school’s curriculum, it is not a school offering a true education.

Media frequently run features on best-college values, but they use cost as the key variable. Catholic families must tease out where unmitigated truth is found, and where real threats to kids’ faith and well-being lie. Which schools will prepare the student well for his profession, and synergize it with full Catholic witnesses.

Convert drawn to stable doctrine, brought parents into Catholic Church

“… Barron’s unwavering belief in the importance of truth is why his standard response to anyone who asks his advice about how to get started as an evangelist is, read, read, read.”

As I see patients in nursing homes, a recurring theme in each diagnosis list is depression. They are lonely and often feel forgotten. Your potential to make a difference in a nursing home is unfathomable.

As our parents get older, it is often difficult to speak with them about issues they will confront in the aging process. The most important thing is to start the conversation early.

To be a faithful Catholic, especially in today’s university setting, a student must be aware that being a truth-seeking thinker means treating Christ’s doctrine as the basis upon which to judge everything else.

Catholic higher education has a unique role that extends beyond the education of the next generation.