By Brother Brian Boyle, C.PP.S. Have you ever completed an accomplishment, overcome a fear, or come to full circle on something, only to shrink back to the same place that you started out? When I was in the eighth grade, I went out in a canoe onto Wolf Lake with my...
The pandemic was hard on nearly everyone, but the isolation and enforced down time may have been hardest on those who draw energy from ministering to others. Those were tough times for Fr. Ben Berinti, C.PP.S., he is quick to admit. “Earliest months of the pandemic...
A project that was long a dream for parishioners at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Ottawa, Ohio, is now nearing completion. An addition to the parish school includes classrooms and a new gymnasium, and will bring all the students in the K-8 school under one roof....
Brother Ben Basile, C.PP.S., is in a reflective mood these days. He’s thinking back on his 50 years of ministry, 40 of them at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting, Ind. It is right for him to be reflective. Doing the right thing at the right time is a theme that...
By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. Five thousand hungry people, what are we to do? Where does he expect us to get enough food for such a crowd? As we look around the world today, there are so many people in need, so many that a crowd of five thousand seems small. So,...
