Christopher de Vinck is an author. His next book, Things that Matter Most, will be published by Paraclete Press this year.

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Fr. John Catoir, president and founder of St. Jude Media Ministry, is pictured in an undated photo. He died April 7, at age 90. He also was a nationally syndicated columnist and a former director of The Christophers. (CNS/Courtesy of Patricia Martin)

Saying goodbye to Fr. Catoir, family friend and St. Jude Media Ministry founder

Opinion
People
Apr 12, 2022

Appreciation: Fr. John Catoir was more than a family friend: he was family, while not by birth but for sure by love. My family adopted Father John, or he adopted us. Love works both ways.

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A statue of an angel carrying Christ's cross is seen on the Castel Sant'Angelo bridge in Rome. (CNS/Paul Haring)

What I learned from my guardian angel

Opinion
Spirituality
Dec 11, 2021

Soul Seeing: My brother Oliver died 41 years ago of pneumonia in my mother's arms. He was on his back in his bed for 32 years. He never moved. He was rolled back and forth and bathed each day. Oliver made me a better man. He was my guardian angel.

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Let us write the unwritten poems about the soul of America

Opinion
People
Jan 1, 2018

For all our faults and woes, and for all our strengths and victories there has been always in America the hope of freedom, the breaking away from tyranny and the consideration of a better world where life and liberty are sown together in a single pattern of unity and goodness.