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Dr. Ray Guarendi said that one question looms large in the minds of many people he has encountered in recent months: What is the best way to make people around me act differently?

Fr. John O’Brien, SJ, is looking to timeless Jesuit traditions as one of many means for the faithful to practice and nurture their spiritual resiliency as Lent gets underway.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of one of the great modern spiritual classics with Catherine Doherty’s guide on the poustinia still inspiring many Catholics to find the dwelling Lord today.

A celebrated Italian Catholic composer and conductor is dismayed with the “very strong decline of the standard of sacred music”.

A nerdy love of science fiction, a yearning for adventure, a passion for science and a foundation of Jesuit education all helped in some way to lead a man from Detroit, Michigan, to become a master of meteorites and the head of the Vatican Observatory.

Bobby Angel knows the “postmodern genie is out of the bottle” and cannot be undone.

While calling himself an “old man” and saying he never expected to be Pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the future.

Growing up in the shadow of the Second World War, most Canadian children were well aware of tales of sacrifice and derring-do on the part of our parents’ generation in defeating Germany and the Nazi horrors it had unleashed.

Angie Peters, the former telecommunications executive — since 2013 the president and CEO of the Toronto-based Christian social service organization Yonge Street Mission — effortlessly cites Scripture to explain the ethos driving her mission to support people trapped in generational poverty.

The husband and wife team of Dallas and Amanda Jenkins, alongside Dr. Douglas S. Huffman, have released their fourth interactive Bible study coinciding with the newest season of The Chosen.