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Accepting low standards comes at a cost. So, why do leaders tolerate it? In this episode, Pat sits down with his good friend Chris Jenson, a management consultant, and discusses what mediocrity really is, why leaders let it occur, and how to overcome it. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums

‘Understanding the integrated nature of subjects breeds an environment of wisdom and brings us closer to the truth only found in God,’ university president says The “first Catholic college” in South Carolina is opening this month. Rosary College in Greenville, South Carolina will start by offering an associates degree of Catholic studies in integrated humanities. Founders of the college provided further information to The College Fix. “The creation of Rosary College was truly a work of the Holy Spirit and a series of events that brought together passionate individuals,” President Michael Shick said via email, when asked about the creation of the college. “It began with Father Dwight Longenecker, who saw his son thrive as a dual-enrolled student at a local community college while he complet...

By Peter Vanden Bos Read time: 5 minutes On an average day, more than 100,000 flights take to the skies around the globe. That fact is even more remarkable when you consider the complex nature of air travel — it takes careful coordination among pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, aircraft cleaners, baggage handlers, flight dispatchers, air traffic controllers, and many other people to get each flight off the ground. Perhaps that’s one reason why many people find airplanes so fascinating. If you count yourself among them, you’ll be interested to know that modern airlines contain many subtle features that often go unnoticed and are designed to keep passengers and crew comfortable and safe during a flight. Have you ever spotted these eight hidden features of airplane cabins? Secret Crew B...

By Phil Lawler ( bio – articles – email ) | Aug 05, 2024 What’s wrong with the Vatican statement on the Olympic blasphemy? Nearly everything. Start with the timing. More than a week passed between the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics and the release of the tepid Vatican response. During that week thousands of people had expressed their shock and anger over a deliberate insult to the Blessed Sacrament—the source and summit of the Catholic faith. So the world naturally turned to Rome for an authoritative response, and for several days heard—nothing at all. Then when the Vatican did release a short statement, it was vouchsafed to the world on a Saturday afternoon. That is the time usually chosen by publicists who feel obliged to put something on the record, but do not want...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Femmes dans un jardin, 1873. Are you looking for peace? What if instead of success and excitement, happiness meant something more like rest, fulfillment, peace? Interestingly, many ancient philosophers and theologians thought about happiness precisely in terms of peace and rest. This is an intriguing idea because we might be tempted to think about happiness in terms of frenzied activity and experience. Happiness is living to the full. It must involve skydiving, exotic travel, gourmet food, and fancy cars. Happiness consists in doing things that are open only to a tiny fraction of the world. But Augustine, in the City of God, argues that peace is the ultimate aim of human life. “There is no man who does not wish for peace” (19.12). Augustine suggests that peace motiva...

‘The task of believers, and of priests in particular, is precisely to touch the hearts of others, so that they may be opened to the message of the Lord Jesus. In this great task, the contribution that literature and poetry can offer is of incomparable value.’ —Pope Francis, ‘On the Role of Literature in Formation,’ July 17, 2024 Images of the Blessed Virgin are almost ubiquitous in the visual arts. From the earliest times, the Madonna and Child have been a favored source of inspiration for artists, so have images of the Nativity and visions of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. Even in art depicting Our Lord’s Passion, the Mother of God can be seen standing at the foot of the Cross, accompanying her Son in his suffering. She is also present in numerous musical settings, from Greg...

By Clement Harrold August 2, 2024 In his 2002 apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, Pope St. John Paul II reminded the faithful of the enduring value of the rosary in the life of the church: “Simple yet profound, it still remains … a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness” (§1). At the same time, the Holy Father clarified that in spite of—or rather, because of—the clearly Marian character of the rosary, the devotion is nevertheless thoroughly Christocentric in nature. How can that be so? Simple: “To recite the rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ” (§3). In other words, the perfect model of Christian contemplation, aka Our Lady, uses the rosary as a special instrument for drawing her spiritual children closer to C...

Catholic Twitter is using juxtaposed images of two Olympics shooters to humorously draw distinctions between everything from priests and seminarians to the styles of different Gospel authors. A meme juxtaposing the contrasting styles of two Olympic marksmen is circulating the internet, and Catholics are giving it a shot. Catholics on X (formerly known as Twitter) have used the viral concept, which plays off the dramatically different approaches of two sharpshooters, to humorously take aim at distinctions between everything from the outlooks of priests and seminarians to the writing styles of different Gospel authors.  The meme in question usually features South Korea rifle shooter Choe Dae-han, wearing specialized eyewear and contorting his body, on the left. Immediately to the right ...

More than two decades ago, a veteran Catholic priest and educator explained some ecclesiastical math to me. The late Father Donald Cozzens was talking about one of the biggest religion-news stories of the past half century — the growing shortage of priests at Catholic altars. To understand the problem, he said, you need to view it through the eyes of mothers and fathers. Click for Crossroads podcast The key: Back when large Catholic families were the norm, it was a matter of parental pride to have a son enter religious life. But what if many, or even a majority, of Catholic families in America contain only one son? Here is a key byte from that “On Religion” column in 2002 (“Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons, Part II). “When it has become normal to have two children or less, you ar...

By Daily Passport Team Read time: 4 minutes America has long been defined by people and communities keen to forge their own independent path. Look no further than its 50 states, which each have a distinct government and cultural identity. While there are still hopes for places like Washington, D.C., or Puerto Rico to join them one day, other proposed states over the centuries have fallen by the wayside. Here are five would-be states from America’s past. Transylvania Credit: volgariver/ iStock via Getty Images Plus  Central Kentucky residents know Transylvania well — and not as the home of Count Dracula. When pioneer Daniel Boone crossed the Cumberland Gap into what is now Kentucky, he established a fort called Boonesborough. He hoped that this would one day be the capital of the 14th ...

Police were called at 12:40 p.m. to I-94 and Prior Avenue after a 911 caller said he was having a psychotic episode and had choked an elderly man. Wondra, the 911 caller, said the man, a priest, had not been breathing for about 30 minutes. Wondra told dispatchers voices in his head told him to kill the man “to save humanity.” Johnson was unconscious in the driver’s seat while Wondra was in the passenger seat. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums