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October 2013

October 23, 2013

Prostitutes, Addicts, Prayers and Dreams: Making the Broken Holy

“We made ourselves available in the corners and the crevices and the dark places in...

October 11, 2013

She Was a Doozy

The following column was written by The Christophers' Jerry Costello: If she had done nothing...

October 10, 2013

VIDEO: Father Jonathan Morris on Aiming to Serve, Not Be Served

This week's reflection by Father Jonathan Morris covers the importance of serving others, of following...

October 03, 2013

Love Turns Despair Into Hope: The LaHood Family’s Ministry to Disabled Children

When Dan LaHood was in second grade at St. John Baptist De La Salle grammar...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

A Call to Holiness: Reflecting on Pope Francis’s “America” Magazine Interview

Much is being written and said about Pope Francis’s comments during an interview published yesterday...

September 11, 2013

Dorothy Day, the San Francisco Earthquake and the Aftermath of 9/11

The major earthquake that shook San Francisco on April 18, 1906, was also felt in...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

“I Give It All to God,” Says Heroine Who Stopped Georgia School Shoooter

When suicidal gunman Michael Jordan Hill entered Decatur, Georgia's, Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy,...

August 12, 2013

Missouri Car Crash Site’s Mystery Priest Seemingly Identified

UPDATE: Video: Father Dowling Speaks to ABC News About Ministering to Crash Victim Katie Lentz...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

The Disability That’s Not So Much of a Disability, After All

Sometimes when parents receive a diagnosis that their unborn child will suffer from a disability,...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

Lt. Col. Mark Weber’s Operation True Grit: A Husband and Father’s Final Legacy

(Editor’s Note: My interview with Lt. Col. Mark Weber was recorded a few weeks ago,...

June 12, 2013

Spirit and Guts: Revisiting the Dennis Quaid/Jim Caviezel Movie “Frequency” for Father’s Day

Anyone who's seen the Aurora Borealis either in pictures, on video or in person knows...

June 06, 2013

A D-Day Hero Who Put His Trust in God

The following column was written by The Christophers' Jerry Costello: He didn’t like the “hero”...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

The Immortal Sacrifice of Four Chaplains

The following column was written by Jerry Costello: It’s been 70 long years since the...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

God Told Me What to Say, and It Went Around the World: A Nun Recalls Marching with Martin Luther King Jr.

The following column was written by The Christophers' Jerry Costello: She’s been referred to as...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Effective Leadership

Here's an excerpt from the Christopher News Note, "Effective Leadership:" Put the word "leadership" into...