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Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F

The Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., ordained as a Catholic priest in 1952, is a member of the Claretian Missionaries, and is founder and director of the Claretian Teaching Ministry. Listed in Who’s Who in Religion in America, he has served as parish priest, seminary professor and rector, college professor, lecturer, magazine writer, newspaper columnist, editor, retreat master, hospital chaplain, prison chaplain, campus chaplain, Cursillo director and director of suicide prevention programs in Texas and California.

He earned degrees in philosophy from Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles and from Notre Dame University, with postgraduate work at the University of Southern California and the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, in ascetical and mystical theology.

Find his many books and audio/visual recordings at www.Catholicbooks.net

Latest Articles By Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F

At Your Wit's End? That's Where God Hides

Sometimes God seems downright playful. He likes especially, it seems, to play the childhood game of “hide-and-seek.” St. Augustine wrote, “Lord, why do you seem to seek those who hide from you, but hide from those who seek you?”
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The Other Side of the Stone

Social surveys have shown that, for reasons unknown, more women than men tend to be late for appointments. But on one momentous occasion—the greatest in human history—women arrived long before any men did. Their early dawn arrival at the scene with embalming spices on that first Easter morn reflected more than mere punctuality.
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Good "Mourning"

Sorrow did not exist in the Garden of Eden. Man brought it to the earth in response to Satan’s nefarious lure. And man’s now corrupt intellect continuously manages to increase it in every possible way. It is found not just in the universal experiences like bereavement, depression, diseases, famine, and calamities like storms, avalanches, floods, earthquakes, etc.
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