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Father Carter Griffin

Priest and beauty

Beauty and the Priest

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It was toward the end of a Sunday Mass at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary when the schola cantorum sang Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus.” Sitting among the concelebrants was the late Father Robert Zylla, OSC, a model of prayer, joy and wisdom for the young men like me in that chapel. His head was lowered in Read More
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Simplicity of Life

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In the early 20th century, popular imagination was alive with the idea of setting foot on the South Pole. British explorer Ernest Shackleton had twice attempted the undertaking and had twice been repulsed by the brutal Antarctic environment. Preparing for a third attempt, he carefully studied all previous expeditions, which he discovered fell into two Read More

Virtues of Spiritual Fatherhood

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We call priests “Father” all the time. What does that title actually mean? Is it simply a symbolic label? Do priests exercise any real paternity, or is it only a kind of metaphorical “fatherhood” in carrying out their pastoral duties? Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, a 19th-century English prelate, saw in the title much more than Read More