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Fat Tuesday - Mardi Gras Meant to Be More than a Party
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am One could call this celebration the last gasp of Ordinary time as the Church
anticipates the penitential Season of the forty days of Lent. Rich ...
Being an Athlete of Christ
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am Jared Zimmerer has been a noncompetitive body builder and power lifter for more than a decade. What this has given him — besides muscles — is great spiritual insight in the...
1,000 Christians flee for their lives - 'We became like refugees'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am The Egyptian government was forced to step in to help displaced Christians fleeing threats of violence and death.
Oarfish strandings in Philippines could mean massive quake coming
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am People in the Philippines are concerned after Oarfish began stranding themselves on beaches in February. Following the first stranding on Mindanao, a ...
Pope Francis makes history by celebrating Christ alongside an Anglican Bishop
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am Pope Francis has been calling for unity for some time. Perhaps it is for this reason he has decided to lead by example.
'You learn a lot' - Pope Francis leads by example to spread a message of unity
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am During his Sunday visit to Rome's Anglican parish of All Saints, Pope Francis voiced gratitude for the good relations Catholics and Anglicans now ...
Your Daily Inspirational Meme: Faith Is Believing
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 amAbortions at sea? Dutch ship captured by Guatemalan military for the murder of thousands of children
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 27, 2017 at 12:00 am The Guatemalan military detained a boat attempting to enter the country with thousands of illegal abortion pills.
Pope deplores discrimination against persons with disabilities
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:38 pm Pope Francis received members of the Capodarco Community on February 25 and decried discrimination against the disabled.
Pope Francis: be close to couples, announce that marriage is sign of love of Christ and the Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:18 pm Pope Francis told parish priests taking part in a course on the canonical annulment process that they “are called by every person and every situation to be traveling companions,...
Living Simply This Lent
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:04 pm I once was visiting a beautiful home, finely furnished with exquisite furniture, lovely artwork and impeccable décor. However, the heavy draperies around the windows blocked most...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Pope Francis
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:02 pm “It is Jesus himself who invites us to make room in our hearts for the urgency to “feed the hungry”, and the Church has made it one of the corporal works of mercy. To share what...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 17:15
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.” (Psalm 17:15) Please share...
Is this building both the Tomb of King David and where Jesus’ Last Supper took place?
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm This two-story building is right outside the Old City walls on the southern side of Jerusalem. Traditionally called “the Cenacle” – the anglicized form of the Latin coenaculum, “...
5 Astounding (and relatively unknown) Catholic curiosities
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm With more than 2,000 years of Church history, Catholics have been captivated by countless miracles and mysteries. While some of these curiosities, such as the incorruptible saints...
Possible video of Marcel Proust unearthed
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm A recently discovered video appears to bring us Marcel Proust, author of the classic Rememberance of Things Past (more recently translated as In Search of Lost Time). According to...
The year of stopping sinning
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm Two experiences in the confessional remind me of the importance of sin — experiences with two confessors: the Zimbabwe jolter and the French consoler. I bring it up because...
This is what happens when you ask your songwriter husband to write a song for you
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm It’s desire that brings them together and it’s love that keeps them together – all a foreshadowing of marriage with God Who doesn’t want a song written just for them? Who...
Leaving procrastination for later
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm Procrastinating, it seems, has a lot to do with those A’s you effortlessly got as a student. While everybody else was struggling with those assignments, you felt like you were...
Emotional wounds? Bring them to the Eucharist to be healed
Aleteia - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm Recently, a man came to me asking for help. He was carrying deep wounds in his soul — emotional ones, not physical. What surprised me at first was that, even though he was...
