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This has been making the rounds for a while, but with the feast of St. Francis of Assisi coming up this weekend, now seems a good time to revisit, reflect, and enjoy.  

Incredibly, it’s been almost exactly 30 years since Pope John Paul II made his historic trip to America’s heartland, celebrating mass at a farm in Iowa.  (“We are all farmers,” he said at one point.)   Well, the spirit of that visit, evidently, lives on in those who were there. From the Des Moines Register:  …

An alert reader wanted me to know about an essay by a friend of his, Susan Windley-Daoust, appearing in this week’s America magazine.  It’s a stunner: a beautiful and thought-provoking look at prayer and vocation, all seen through the experience of giving birth:  It was only after I gave birth three times–one by Caesarean section and two…

We periodically hear about athletes and their faith — but here’s a sport that rarely gets mentioned: horse racing. The Tidings in Los Angeles has a look at champion jockey Martin Pedroza, who talks about how prayer has sustained him: The jockey says prayer has been the one constant in his life. After graduating from…
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