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The theme of this issue is Renewed Purpose. This does not mean rolling up our sleeves and simply trying harder.

St. John Neumann, the first U.S. bishop to be canonized, was a champion of the Catholic school system.

The most prominent scandal last year – even currently – is the almost universal effort to shut down Truth. We’ve gotten a mixed bag of ‘scientific’ claims about the virus, election claims about the winner, reasons why we don’t need to go to Church, why to keep distant from others, rationale for isolating the elderly, and how we should play our ‘responsible’ part.

January is the month when we ring in a new year with the hope that it will be both happy and prosperous. After the unusual challenges of 2020, our greeting might belie an underlying skepticism, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic that dogged us much of this past year remains with us at the turning of the calendar. We do wish for happier times.

One key source of happiness for those in the workforce is job satisfaction, often heavily dependent upon the social aspects of the office environment, a sense of purpose and value, and the opportunity for advancement.

At the beginning of 2020, Casey Askar was speaking with several Fortune 500 companies that were interested in acquiring a vacant office tower his business owns in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.

Although the Ku Klux Klan has long ceased to be a significant influence in American life, when it is recalled it is typically thought of as an anti -black group of the Old South. But its adherents were active in other parts of the country as well and the targets of its ire also included Roman Catholics.

Legatus’ upcoming pilgrimages this year to Mexico, Burgundy, and Medjugorje will offer members and their families opportunities to refresh and grow in faith. Mexico and Medjugorje have been popular sojourns in the past, while the trip to Burgundy, France premiers this year.

Cases that shape U.S. jurisprudence concerning the most important moral issues of our time – involving life, marriage, and religious liberty – have frequently been decided by a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

We live in an age of scientific materialism. One of the signs of this philosophy is how the traditional Western idea of the soul has been submerged beneath the materialist premise that matter is the cause of life.

Biden-Harris supporters are compiling “Enemies Lists,” reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted in November.

The Christian life depends upon multiple things that work together to draw us closer to God. Beginning with Baptism, we receive the gift of God’s grace to assist us on our journey through life.

The strong will, as we are using the term here, is not to be confused with the will that seeks greatness. The will that seeks greatness courageously discerns and chooses the good and directs the appetite toward it. The strong will, on the other hand, is dominated by taking action and often asserts independently of the intellect or the consideration of anyone else.

The Secret, a 2006 documentary film and bestseller, proposed a simple “Law of Attraction”: think positive thoughts, focus on goals, and your dreams will come true.

At Healthnetwork Foundation, our mission is better medicine for all, which includes making referrals for major illness and facilitating philanthropy to advance medical research. Today, we share key components of a webinar on mental health issues in the time of COVID-19.

During the almost year-long quarantine we have been facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have become more aware of time. As adults, it is not that we didn’t know what time was before, but for many, our relationship with time has changed.