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Category: Catholic Living
Inspiring Account of Italian Teen Just Declared Venerable
Thank God this young man kept a journal. It ought to be required reading in every Catholic school CNA, Hannah Brockhaus: Pope Francis Wednesday advanced the sainthood causes of five men and women, including an Italian teenager who died of … Continue reading
Coronavirus: Dr. John Rao on the New Normal vs Viva Cristo Rey
Edward Pentin’s blog The respected Catholic historian John Rao has written the following incisive reflection on the coronavirus pandemic which places much of the current disturbing situation in context. For many years, Dr. Rao, who is associate professor of history … Continue reading
Coach Don Shula, Devout Catholic, RIP
National Catholic Register, Matt Archbold: The testimony of others really does make a difference. Tom Monaghan, the found of Ave Maria University, had lapsed into a nominal practice of his religion as a young man. When he read that Shula … Continue reading
Catholic Church and Her Sisters Leaders in History of Hospitals and Health Care
By 1875 there were 160 Catholic Hospitals in the U.S. Catholic World Report, Kevin Schmiesing: The first coronavirus patient in the United States was treated in a Catholic health care system in the state of Washington. Catholic institutions account for a large … Continue reading
Venerable Brother William Gagnon
National Catholic Register, Michael O’Neill: He had literally worn his heart out. On Feb. 28, 1972, Brother William Gagnon collapsed and died. His fellow Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God buried him in the garden of their convent and … Continue reading
MIchigan: Hillsdale College 18 Converts in Just One Year
National Catholic Register, Mary Rose Short:: Students at Hillsdale College pursue goodness, truth and beauty through a liberal arts curriculum. To their surprise, some find what they are seeking in the Catholic Church. This year, 18 Hillsdale students are preparing … Continue reading
Holy Saturday: Archbishop Vigano Asks All Bishops and Priests to Pray Exorcism Prayer 3pm Rome Time
The Remnant: ON OCTOBER 13, 1884, Leo XIII had a terrible vision of the assault of the powers of Hell against Holy Mother Church, and ordered the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel to be said at the end of … Continue reading
Brooklyn Landlord Waives April Rent for His 80 Tenants
CNA: “My Catholic faith brought it upon me to make this decision. I pray every day, and when I have extra time, when I’m in quarantine, I pray and I ask the good Lord to please conquer this vicious virus.” … Continue reading
Colombia: Kidnapped, Rosary Kept Her Hopes Up for 453 Days
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
April Fools Day Began Over 400 Years Ago Because of Pope Gregory XIII
+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
Lima: Charity Alive in the City of Saints
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.
The Catholic Origin of Hospitals
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
Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad
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
I Will Not Remember Their Sins
It is written (Ezechiel 18:22): “I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.” Saint Thomas in the third part of his Summa Theologica, Q. 86, art. 1 … Continue reading