[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] “The call to marriage is also a vocation,a gift from God. I will never forget a young man, an engineering student in Kraków, who everyone knew aspired with determination to holiness. This was his life plan. He knew he had been ‘created for great things,’ as Saint Stanislaus Kostka once expressed it. And […]
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]30-years of Solidarity mural in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (priest Jerzy Popiełuszko in foreground) by Krugerr[/featured-image] Today, June 4th, 2014 marks 25 years of Polish freedom from communism. While it is a wonderful event to celebrate, let us remember that it was principally through prayer that communism fell in Poland. In fact, it was primarily through
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Here is my own take on the classic tale of Poland’s famous White Eagle. Enjoy! Sacrifice by Philip Kosloski Upon a cool mid-summer’s eve, I lost my way and wandered ’bout In foreign lands I’d never seen, Strayed ‘midst the leaves a-glistening. Drawn empty from a fortnight out Bereft of food and looking lean;
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[featured-image] It is clear today that, for young people, saints are fascinating—think of Francis of Assisi and José of Anchieta, Juan Diego and Theresa of the Child Jesus, Rose of Lima and Bakhita, Kisito and Maria Goretti, Father Kolbe and Mother Theresa and the theatrical works, films, comic strips, recitals, concerts and muscials that re-create
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Source – Richard Dorrell[/featured-image] On Wednesday, January 9, 1918, Josemaría [Escriva] turned sixteen. The city of Logroño lay peaceful under a heavy snowfall. The temperature hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit. No one went out unless they absolutely had to. On one of those wintry days the young man looked down at the snow and saw
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[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] As a part of a series of interviews with a number of prominent bloggers, artists, writers and others who love J.R.R. Tolkien and the realm he “sub-created,” Mr. Joseph Pearce was gracious enough to take time out of his day to answer a few questions on Tolkien and even offer a few comments
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“The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.” – G.K. Chesterton In our modern world one unfortunate result of our intense skepticism of anything we can not see with our eyes is a general disbelief
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