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By Fr. Eric J. Banecker, Catholic World Report - Midtown brought its usual array of professionals in business casual attire and AirPods. When I was in high school, one of the assistant principals would encourage us to look at the faces of people on their way to work. He said it would tell you a lot about whether they like their jobs or not. He said this to encourage us to choose a career that we really enjoyed, and that also benefited others. As I looked at the faces of the people on the Avenue of the Americas—many right around my age—I had to wonder if they had the gnawing sense that they had chosen incorrectly ...

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - Fr. Alex was only an infant when his father was killed in war. He and his mother, defrauded of the means of support available to them, were driven into the brush, where they were forced to survive with virtually nothing but themselves. He lived there until the age of seventeen... When he was eleven, his mother could find no more odd jobs. She told the boy Alex that she could no longer afford to send him to school, where he had been an A-student. In the years that followed, Alex fell into a deep sadness. ...