The Flesh God Puts on Ghosts

The Flesh God Puts on Ghosts

The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
Fr. Aloysius Schwartz and St. Therese of Lisieux

Fr. Aloysius Schwartz and St. Therese of Lisieux

“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” As the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus approaches, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children)...
Hidden Evil and the Few Rescued Ones

Hidden Evil and the Few Rescued Ones

The driver steered his car down a backcountry road that split canopies of great oaks, whose moss dripped from its long branches like Louisiana tinsel. The hardly-traveled road is a place where hawks soar over towering tree tops and deer and wild boar roam unencumbered...
Mothering Through Thorns of Love

Mothering Through Thorns of Love

The Sisters of Mary’s allegiance to five vows has made them one of the hardest-working religious communities in the world. True Motherhood Some thirty-three years ago, a young religious sister named Sr. Margie Cheong would join in the evening twilight with Venerable...
Chalco’s Gift of Tears

Chalco’s Gift of Tears

“Non sum ego eram”- I am not that I was Fr. Bob Golas had been a priest for nearly two decades in the Archdiocese of Washington when something foreign – something uncontrollable – began to materialize in his body this past winter. It came on abruptly. Those in his...

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