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In God’s Time, Not Ours
Every generation needs to learn to be patient with God’s response time
By John M. Grondelski | May 14th 2026 11:13 AMI have been a critic of the “pastoral adaptation” of the Catholic Bishops of the United States, whereby Ascension Thursday is transferred to the Seventh Sunday of Easter if that is the policy of an entire ecclesiastical province. Most of the United States has “adapted” except for some ecclesiastical provinces…
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The first generation of Dominicans managed to turn France around and defeat heresy
By John M. Grondelski | August 8th 2024 11:57 AMAlasdair MacIntyre, in his important book After Virtue, suggests what the world needs today is “another -- doubtless very different -- Saint Benedict.” Some might argue that Pope Benedict XVI was that new “Benedict” speaking to the modern world. I’d like to suggest what the world needs today is a…
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