Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

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I have to admit that my prayer often goes more like, “Listen, Lord, your servant is speaking.” But prayer is a genuine conversation only if it includes truly listening to the Lord. And the best way to ...

Bishop James Conley Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, ...

Creating a sense of purpose and identity.Thomas Lickona Thomas Lickona, Ph.D., is a psychologist and educator who has been called “the father of modern character education.” A professor of education ...

Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce is Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. Among the books he has ...

Join the worldwide Magnificat family by subscribing now: Your prayer life will never be the same! Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash. It is the good news of the remission of sins. What a marvel! A ...

Fear is contagious.Philip Lawler Phil Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News (CWN) and the director of Catholic Culture. He attended Harvard College and did graduate work in political philosophy ...

FamilyCookingaPhoto by Jimmy Dean on Unsplash.. A 15-year-old boy, asked to mow the lawn, said, “Why should I mow the lawn? It’s not my lawn.” Attitudes like these caused two-thirds of American ...

Up to now we have always regarded Lent as a time specially set aside for penance, a time for examining our consciences and doing penance for our sins. The struggle against sin was always made the ...

Image by 4222320 from Pixabay.. He well desires his own salvation who busily keeps within him the name of Jesus. Truly, I have no wonder that he who puts not the name of Jesus lastingly in his mind ...