A Winning Team: Pope Francis and Our Lady
What is the one thing that Pope Francis is rarely without? Hint: He always brings it with him and is seen wearing it in the majority of his…
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Author: Patti Maguire Armstrong
Advice on Happiness from the Smartest Man in the World
Imagine your son tells you he wants to become a priest. Would your heart soar and your soul praise God? Would you be torn; feeling happy he wants…
Let Your Prayer Life Explode with Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
I know I should carve out more time for family and sleep. And prayer. Especially prayer. If only I prayed more, then everything else would go smoother. So…
A Prayer for the Internet
The Internet has it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Like everything in life, it’s a battleground of good and evil, best navigated by staying near…
More than One Way to Jesus
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). “For there is one God and one…
Pockets of Prayer
If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy. But really, how can you fit it all in? That was once my question until…
Making Lives Count on Memorial Day
When Maria Wanchick of Bismarck, ND was thirteen years old, she thought of all the lives lost to abortion and imagined putting up some sort of memorial to…
Emergency Help from the Blessed Mother
When we’ve messed up, we should run to our mother. Scripture makes this clear. At the wedding at Cana, either the wine list or the guest list was…
How Can I Forgive When I Can’t Forget?
While many people believe forgetting an injury is part of forgiveness, Fr. Justin Waltz of St. Leo’s Church in Minot suggested just the opposite. In fact, he stated…
From Catholic School to Prison
Recently, I began corresponding with a young man who once walked down a dark, destructive path. Eric is sentenced to twenty years in a Jamestown, ND prison for…