Author Fr. McTeigue

What if you had the cure for a terrible disease—what would be your obligation to make that cure known?

What if the terrible disease for which you had the cure were alienation from God? Then what would your obligation be to make that cure known?

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Who said this? And when?

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and what’s been left out. But these young people today have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn’t know existed.

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However you might mark the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe this week, the missionaries and leadership of FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) will be doing something distinctive. FOCUS, dedicated to evangelization on college campuses and parishes in the US and Europe and with service trips across Latin America, will consecrate their efforts to the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the intercession of her great herald, Saint Juan Diego. Under the inspiration of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Saint Juan Diego sought converts, who became disciples, who became missionaries, who in their turn fostered the process of conversion, discipleship, and mission.

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