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By Claire Dwyer, Spiritual Direction - A Series of Reflections on St. Elizabeth of the Trinity... When Elizabeth stepped into the convent and entered into religious life as a postulant, she left behind her close-knit family, friends and confidants, stylish clothes, fashionable hairstyles, accomplished piano-playing, and scenic summer vacations. She gave up the entire world and slipped into a simple dark dress and veil and began to dissolve into Carmel. And she couldn’t have been happier. So many long-held desires were finally fulfilled, and she was not disappointed as her dreams became her daily life.

By Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing - The indictments of our modern age are many. We are intellectually exhausted, the willing victims of our own success, as Ross Douthat argues in his recent book, The Decadent Society. Our world is hyper-individualized and disdains traditional sources of morality, as Patrick Deneen observes in Why Liberalism Failed. And, much to social planners’ consternation, recent developments have aggravated, rather than ameliorated economic inequality, as Christopher Caldwell explains in The Age of Entitlement.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture -