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  • New Priests

    “The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.” G.K. Chesterton, from The Ball and the Cross   The above picture was taken at the end of the ordination Mass of nine priests (with Cardinal Dolan in the center of the group) of the Dominican Order, Province of St. Joseph (details), on May…

  • Ordination Season

    “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” G.K. Chesterton   It is priestly ordination time* in the Roman Catholic Church. The newly ordained are going against the stream, and, as such, are Men-alive.**  They are beginning a great adventure, for they have chosen not only the narrow path, but the better part of that little…