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God our Father, source of all holiness, the work of Your hands is manifest in Your saints, the beauty ofYour truth is reflected in their faith. May we who aspire to have part in their joybe filled with the spirit that blessed their lives,so that having shared their faith on earthmay we also know their…

From last October, here’s part of my homily for All Saints Day 2007: Shortly after he converted to Catholicism in the late 1930s, Thomas Merton was walking the streets of New York with his friend, Robert Lax. Lax was Jewish, and he asked Merton what he wanted to be, now that he was Catholic. “I…

The good people at Busted Halo have recruited the esteemed saint expert, Fr. James Martin, SJ, to talk about all the saints (for All Saints) and, because they’re so closely linked, the neighboring holiday, Halloween. Take a look.

I know of at least one saint who is married: my wife. (She has to be a saint, being married to me. Really.) But the official communion of saints doesn’t, otherwise, include a lot of people who shared a marriage bed — a truly peculiar oversight. An overwhelming number are nuns, priests, monks or long-suffering…
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