Here’s a little something to lift your heart on a Sunday, a story about a huge gathering of men in Milwaukee, all eager to learn and live the gospel message: Father Larry Richards, host of Relevant Radio’s “Changed Forever” program, didn’t pull any punches as the leadoff speaker for the second annual Men of Christ…

How could anyone forget Randy Pausch? Last year, I first posted the story of his amazing “last lecture” — and I even preached about it one Sunday in a homily. Steve Hartman, Oprah Winfrey and Diane Sawyer have all profiled him. His video has been watched by millions, and stories about him have hurtled around…

As one of our correspondents at CBS likes to put it: “Everybody has a story.” And the story of this Protestant minister’s conversion to Catholicism, printed recently in the Catholic Explorer in Illinois, is well worth hearing: At the same time he was performing duties as a Protestant minister, John Johnson told the Catholic Explorer…

My friend, the Trappist monk and writer Fr. James Stephen Behrens, sent this along the other day. It’s too good not to share: No one likes getting lost as a result of a wrong turn off any real or figurative road. The feeling of being in unknown territory without a map can be very unsettling.…

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