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Some people take a “gap year” between high school and college. Father Eric Cadin took a year off between college and seminary, living on a beach in Hawaii and surfing every day.

Hank Christ of the Harrisburg chapter credits Bible study for enliving his love for the lord. Legatus’ 2019 National President of the Year is Hank Christ, who in December completed a two-year term as president of the Harrisburg Chapter.

Growing up in St. James Parish in the 1950s, my siblings and I were not aware of the festivities of Mardi Gras 55 miles downriver in New Orleans. All we knew was that when Ash Wednesday rolled around, my mother had all eight of us lined up at the altar rail to get ashes.

Coronavirus and the influenza epidemic have highlighted the need to be smart about our exposure to respiratory viruses. Two public health organizations — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) — stand out as credible resources for the latest news about these epidemics.

The new docudrama Faustina: Love and Mercy provides a window into the brief life and work of St. Faustina, whom Pope St. John Paul II canonized in 2000 as the “first saint of the new millennium.

Consecration to St. Joseph can be accomplished with a simple prayer of entrustment, but here Fr. Donald Calloway sets forth a 33-day program of preparation similar to what St. Louis de Montfort recommended for Marian consecration in his True Devotion to Mary.

Richard Baxter was a 17th-century pastor in the Church of England who, as a Noncomformist, carved out a self-styled Protestantism that was as much Puritan or Presbyterian as anything else. This book, written in the last decade of his life, reads as an exhortation to perform good works to accompany one’s Christian faith.

In this little volume, Fr. Broom describes a plan for navigating through practices that advance growth in personal holiness. This “road map” requires prayer, order, good habits, and a certain mindfulness about fulfilling this destiny.

So what’s wrong with pleasures? Why not chase after them? Does Benedict want his monks to be miserable?

I am the pastor of a parish that lays in the shadow of the United Nations building on the East Side of Manhattan. Our church is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday. We have two daily weekday Masses — one in the early morning, and one at lunch hour.

According to the 2019 Wealth Engine Millennial Wealth Report, there are currently 700,000 millennial millionaires in the United States. This number is set to increase dramatically because millennials are on track to inherit between $30 trillion and $70 trillion by 2030.

The vast majority of calls taken by the ethicists concern end-of-life decision-making. The principal analytical tool used in these cases is the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means of treatment.

Integrity is the most cited word with companies that list their values. But listing these values and living them are two different things. Some companies tout their values but don’t hold leaders accountable for living them. Consider, for example, that Enron had “integrity” on their list of values.

Sin is the cause of endless misery today – and yet, most suffering from despondency never attribute it to immorality. Why would they? Most don’t practice faith in Christ, and of those who do, many no longer hear straight talk about sin.

St. Katharine Drexel was an American heiress and philanthropist who founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and donated her $20 million fortune to meet the spiritual and material needs of black and Native American people.

It is a longstanding tradition of the Church to dedicate the month of March in honor of St. Joseph. This makes sense since the Solemnity of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19. As I prepared to write this article for the March issue, it became evident that my topic should be St. Joseph. Let me explain.