This is a tremendous account of Catholic fortitude that should have been headlines on Catholic news sites… CNA: Diana María Toro Vélez was kidnapped on a September day, as she drove home from Mass in the Colombian city where she … Continue reading

This is a tremendous account of Catholic fortitude that should have been headlines on Catholic news sites… CNA: Diana María Toro Vélez was kidnapped on a September day, as she drove home from Mass in the Colombian city where she … Continue reading
+uCatholic, Billy Ryan: April Fools Day: the annual day popular around the world full of practical jokes, pranks, and hoaxes culminating in the jokester shouting “April Fools!” at the victim. Did you know that April Fools Day, also known as … Continue reading
CNA: Priests and volunteers have distributed more than 15,000 food baskets to Peruvians unable to work during the nation’s coronavirus pandemic lockdown. They say they aim to distribute 15,000 more. More on this here.
Catholic Answers. Mike Aquilina: Did you know that the institution we know as the hospital is entirely an invention of the Catholic Church? Well, it was. The ancient world had all the material ingredients needed for such an institution. It … Continue reading
There is one thing about the future that can be predicted with absolute certainty. It is that everybody reading these lines will one day die, as will their author, and I rather sooner than most of you because I am … Continue reading
It is written (Ezechiel 18:22): “I will not remember” any more “all his iniquities that he hath done.” Saint Thomas in the third part of his Summa Theologica, Q. 86, art. 1 uses this quote from Ezechiel in his Sed … Continue reading
Vatican News: Sr. Monica Omowunmi Rowland, the Superior General of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Nigeria has narrated how one of her Sisters, Sr. Henrietta Alokha, the school principal of Bethlehem Girls College died while rescuing … Continue reading
Charlotte was Both, Amy Welborn, A few years ago, I set out to research my grandmother’s early childhood in Philadelphia, looking for clues about what the world was like in the first precarious years of her life. I knew that … Continue reading
When we stand before the Lord for our particular judgement, how will He decide whether to admit us into the company of the saved (if only after a time of purification) or banish us from His presence forever? The question … Continue reading
Catholic Weekly, Marilyn Rodrigues: Each night I read a bit from the Gospels to my young sons. One thing that strikes me is how Jesus’ preaching was often met with astonishment by people. What came from his mouth was utterly … Continue reading
Community in Mission, Msgr Pope: So you think the idea of the “Twelve Steps” is new? Well, if you think you’ve got a new idea, go back and see how the Greeks put it, or in this case how the Medieval … Continue reading
Sad and beautiful. Reminded me of the passing of Brother Hugh. He died around midnight 1979, July 11. The birds were singing. Aleteia, Anna Whiston-Donaldson: I sat at a small table in the back of the bookstore, looking out at the faces … Continue reading
Note that Harrison Butker ended up with Kansas City not Carolina. National Catholic Register, Trent Beattie: Harrison Butker: “Our natural mothers point out things that we miss, and they have a deep concern for us. Mary takes this to a … Continue reading
CNS, Mark Judge: “If you’re there, you have to help me.” Those are the words that poet Sally Read said to an icon of Jesus in 2010. Read, a British poet and atheist, had stopped into a church in Santa … Continue reading
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