by Kevin Banet | Feb 1, 2018 | IRL, News in general
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...
by Kevin Banet | Jan 17, 2018 | Catholic leaders, IRL
Unexpected chastisement from EWTN founder-to-be I was one of several hundred people gathered in a church hall in the late 1970s to hear a short Poor Clare nun give a talk on Christian life. The speaker was Mother Angelica, who would later found EWTN, the largest...
by Kevin Banet | Nov 3, 2017 | IRL, religious life
I’m going to depart from my usual article on promoting religious life to talk about something that I think is very important – authentic religious life. This is a topic central to the renewal and strengthening of every religious community. Years ago the...
by Kevin Banet | Jun 2, 2017 | IRL, News in general
If you’ve been to the National Meeting of the Institute on Religious Life, I’m sure you’ve enjoyed the depth of knowledge on many topics given by expert speakers around the country. This year’s IRL meeting in April had as its theme,...