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Category: Catholic Living
17 Years in MLB, Outfielder Mark Kotsay Thanks Father and Catholic Faith
National Catholic Register: Thirty-seven year-old Mark Kotsay has done nearly everything that can be done in baseball. At Cal State Fullerton his team won the College World Series, and he was named MVP. He then played on the USA’s bronze medal-winning squad … Continue reading
Former Bears Punter Talks About His Catholic Faith and Football
CNA: Faith has always played a significant role in many NFL players lives. In this era, New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow is famous for displaying his faith on the field by kneeling and praying. Read more of the … Continue reading
Moslem Artist Rejoices in His New Found Catholic Faith
AsiaNews: “Since I converted to Christ, my life is full of love and truth. Today I want to contribute to the work of proclamation, painting and creating representations of Christian statues of Jesus and Mary. It is a spiritual comfort after … Continue reading
Cardinal Tong’s Inspiring Letter to Faithful of Hong Kong for Holy Week
AsiaNews: Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, May you have a Happy Easter! I am happy to share with you the good news that at the Easter Vigil on March 30 this year our diocese will be blessed as … Continue reading
How a Moslem Woman Became a Catholic Servant of the Poor
AsiaNew: Mumbai (AsiaNews) – Sabira was only seven years old when she ran away from home with her brother. It was 1991, and the two children were running away from a life of absolute poverty, hunger, a violent mother and the … Continue reading
Restoring a Catholic Memory
On How to Develop a Catholic Sense Without a Catholic Culture To restore to his people a true memory Alexander Solzhenitsyn has accepted almost unspeakable sacrifice and loss, and especially the cross of patience. Solzhenitsyn has attempted to draw his … Continue reading
178 Christian Homes Torched / Shahbaz Bhatti Memorial Vandalized
Lahore,India AsiaNews: The memorial dedicated to Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Catholic minister of Minority Affairs murdered in 2011, was vandalised in broad daylight last Saturday. More on this here.
Hilaire Belloc’s View of a Pilgrimage
When Hilaire Belloc was a rumbustious young man in his mid-thirties, and only a few years after he had completed his journey afoot to Rome, he wrote an essay entitled “The Idea of a Pilgrimage,” which first appeared in his … Continue reading
A Culture Against the Grain
I am returning here to a theme I’ve sounded the last couple of times I’ve written for the SBC website, but let me state the premise that underlies what I’ll be saying. It is that the Culture War, first named … Continue reading
Catholic Olympic Coach: ‘I Live Every Day Like It’s My Last’
CNA: When coaches and athletes are preparing to head to the Olympic Games, they certainly long for the thrill of victory and don’t even want to consider the agony of defeat. But what of the challenge of even going to the … Continue reading
The Contemplative and the Toyota
A couple of weeks ago, a wonderful coincidence struck me as I reviewed two articles for our site hours apart on the same day: Robert Hickson’s Complacent Sentries and the Sloth of Roaming Unrest and Gary Potter’s Glittering Images. The … Continue reading
On Hilaire Belloc and a Great Wind
When Hilaire Belloc was a vigorous forty years of age, and three years before his life was shaken and shattered by the death of his wife Elodie on Candlemas 1914, he wrote an intimately evocative essay, entitled “On a Great … Continue reading
Grateful That Parents Did Not Let Doctors Starve Him to Death
California Catholic Daily: The “treatment plan” the doctor told us was that they’d give our son pain medicine and let him die (of starvation and dehydration). Jodi began to cry and refused, at which point the doctor turned to Quentin … Continue reading
900th Anniversary of Knights of Malta
Catholic Culture: Matthew Festing, the Englishman who has served as Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta since 2008, reflected on the state of the order, which will celebrate its 900th anniversary on February 9. Read more here.