Below is an excrecpt from Stephen Schmalhofer recently published article, "Catholic Life in the Ivy League: Memories of Yale University and St. Mary's, New Haven" on the New Liturgical Movement website. Stephen Schmalhofer studied history at Yale University and formerly blogged at "For God, For Country and For Yale."

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In this video the Dartmouth College Council of the Knights of Columbus and other College Knights traveled to holy sites before WYD to prepare for a week of service. For the college Knights of Columbus, World Youth Day in Madrid was an experience of service and growth which they will take back to their campus. Around the 4:40 timemark, Fr. Jonathan D. Kalish, O.P. shows the birthplace of Saint Dominic in Caleruega, halfway between Osma and Aranda de Duero in Old Castile, Spain.

"Catholic Answers LIVE" is a daily, call-in radio program that airs live Monday through Friday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M. Eastern Time (3 P.M. to 5 P.M. Pacific), on over 100 AM and FM stations across America, on Sirius Satellite Radio, as well as around the world on EWTN Global Catholic Radio (shortwave) and on the Internet. Patrick Coffin, the host of the show, has been speaking and writing about the Catholic faith for over 15 years. A native Nova Scotian, he has been a stage actor, a teacher of theology (he holds a master's degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville), a professional journalist and an executive recruiter.

Kindly Light, an international team of artists and thinkers, have produced a new promotional video for the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (aka "Angelicum") in Rome. In it you will see Fr. Charles Morerod, O.P. (Rector & Professor of Philosophy) of the Swiss Province & Fr. Philippe-André Holzer, O.P., (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy) of the Province of Southern Germany and Austria, among others.

Br. John Baptist Hoang, O.P., a Student Brother of the Province of St. Joseph, has spent the summer serving the poor at the St. Vincent de Paul campus in Louisville, KY. In a recent article for the St. Vincent de Paul website, Br. John Baptist reflects on the relationship between the Dominican Order and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, emphasizing the relationship between Père Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, O.P., and Bl. Frederic Ozanam, the Founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In this article, Br. John Baptist also discusses the importance of seeing Christ in the poor, relating this to his understanding of his own vocation to the Dominican life.

The Long Island Catholic, the newspaper of the diocese of Rockville Center, recently published a feature article on Bishop Chris Cardone, O.P., a member of the Province of St. Joseph who has served for many years in the Solomon Islands. Read the article, and look at the slideshow of photographs of Bishop Cardone in the Solomon Islands and on a recent visit to Long Island.