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Acamps: “Much more than I could have ever hoped for”

25 July 2019

I arrived at last year’s Acamps without any unusual expectations: a vacation abroad with catechesis and moments of leisure playing sports, singing and attending concerts. I did consider that this would be a time of joy and deepening of my faith but what that week gave me was much more than I could have ever […]

Acamps Festival – History, Holiday and Concerts

16 June 2018

Still almost two months till the big event, plenty of time to get ready, to learn about the place, the people and all the things we’ll do there at Acamps.

Time takes no holiday

14 February 2018

"Behold, now is the acceptable time."

When will I have time for God?

16 December 2017

Benny, seminarian in the Saint James Vicariate, writes for us about a very important subject during Advent.

Why World Youth day is not a typical youth gathering, and it’s not “Catholic Woodstock” ?

3 August 2016

People accuse folks of ‘not being present’ during the big events in their lives because all they care about is snapping a picture with their phones, or grabbing a selfie with a celeb. As a photojournalist, I’m the worst. When I’m covering events, I rarely experience the significance of what’s happening before me. In fact, I […]

How to Save Catholic Schools

28 May 2014

It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of empirical research have shown, these kids have a better chance of successfully completing high school and college, and are better prepared to life-after-the-classroom, than their peers attending government schools. These inner-city Catholic schools are “public schools” […]