What – your community has no superstar?
What to do if you have no stellar leader or founder I often think about the disparity between two types of religious communities that we see today. One type is growing with young, zealous recruits. They are featured in the Catholic media. Everyone flocks to them. For...Fr. John Hardon and one crazy practical joke
Even though I’m serious about promoting vocations to religious life, I’ll have to admit that sometimes I like to play practical jokes. One day, while I was working at the Institute on Religious Life, the phone rang. The voice was soft and yet intense. Yet...Friendship in community life
“These guys are tight,” said my future novice director. To me, they looked like very ordinary fellows. The men in the print shop of this lay community ran the press, the folding machine, and mailed out orders for books and literature. By tight, he meant...Synod on young people and vocations shows promise
The Vatican’s upcoming synod on young people is a hopeful sign to me. The meeting, called “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment,” will address a general question that needs so much to be answered today. That question seems to me to be,...Free Ebook!
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