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By Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, Catholic Exchange - Saint Pope Paul VI’s tender devotion to Mary is evident in his request that his first Mass as a priest be celebrated in the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Brescia. As a bishop and then later as pope, he frequently spoke at Marian congresses and events in order to encourage devotion to Mary.

By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, CatholicPhilly - Augusto Del Noce, the late Italian philosopher, described our situation best in his essay, “Technological Civilization and Christianity.” It’s worth reading. As “postmoderns,” we’ve tried to overcome our despair with science and technology, and they produce many good things. But they also focus us radically on this world and away from the supernatural. As a result, man’s religious dimension, our sense of the transcendent, slowly dries up and disappears. Technological civilization doesn’t persecute religion, at least not directly. It doesn’t need to. It makes God irrelevant.

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange - There is a sin that all of us who are not saints battle. It is the sin of pride. It causes division within ourselves and in our relationships with other people. We see the devastating impacts of pride in our families, friendships, relationships with co-workers, strangers, and in the inner-workings of the Church... Pride is the original sin through which we desire to be God, to always be right, and to have power. No joy can come from pride, but we continue on this path in vain.

By Dustin Siggins, The Stream - The young man and I have several things in common. He seems to have a good life, like I have a very good marriage. He wants to do right by God as I desire to do right by God and my family. But just as the young man declined to give away his wealth and earn “treasure in Heaven,” I have declined to give away Facebook and YouTube to earn the treasure on earth of better serving my wife and child...