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Holy Innocents Question
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:16 am I've been wanting to blog this question all day because it's a major pet peeve of mine but I haven't had the time until now. As y'all know, today (and it's still the 28th in L.A...
Death by Broken Heart?: Actress Debbie Reynolds dies at 84, just one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am Actress Debbie Reynolds has passed away, just one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher.
Don't let shame keep you from Confession
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am While reconciliation is intended to allow Christ's victory to overcome sin in our lives, what happens when shame over one's sins is so great that it ...
'The only thing we could do was pray' - Doctors insist on abortion but loving mother gives life a chance
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am Expecting mother Johanna Morton went to her doctor's office for a routine ultrasound. She left much later, heartbroken at the devastating news.
Pope Francis says even complaints to the Lord are forms of prayer
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am During his weekly general audience, Pope Francis greeted thousands of pilgrims before watching - and participating in a performance from Italy's ...
North Koreans forced to celebrate Kim Jong-un's grandmother's birthday instead of Christ's this Christmas
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's grandmother, Kim Jong-suk, was born on Christmas Eve in 1919. Instead of celebrating the birth of Christ, the ...
A warning: California to run out of water within 20 years, food production to collapse
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am There is nothing in the universe as important as water. Without it, nothing we know of can live. This cosmic understanding is appreciated in ...
Islamic State general invades Europe with an army of 400 disguised as refugees
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am As the vise tightens on ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the barbaric terrorist state is sending its soldiers abroad to spread terror around the world. Now an ...
What does the Holy See have to say about the Lipa Marian apparitions?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am The story of Sister Teresita Castillo and the supposed Marian apparitions of Lipa City, Philippines reads something like a mystery novel.
The final wish of a dying man will break your heart and restore your faith in the power of love
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am A dying man decided to spend his final moments in the comfort of his home - but first he made one last wish that broke the hearts of millions.
Three simple prayers to ensure an AMAZING, LIFE-CHANGING new year
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am This year has been difficult for us all - but every bad and disheartening event that came with 2016 doesn't need to follow us into 2017.
ISIS releases terrifying warnings to 'disbelieving dogs' this New Years Eve
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 29, 2016 at 12:00 am The Islamic State has posted several threatening messages to its encrypted social media site Telegram.
Bangladesh: terrorist attack on parish foiled
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:57 pm Bangladeshi police foiled a planned terrorist attack on a parish in the nation’s capital.
Saints of the Old Testament: St. David, king and prophet
Rorate Coeli - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:51 pm "The Tree of Jesse"
St. David in a dream foresees his blessed offspring
From the frontispiece of the 15th century breviary of Philippe le Bon
MS 9511 - Royal Library of Belgium-...
1st Christmas Mass in Mali city since 2012
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:19 pm In 2012, jihadists captured Gao, one of Mali’s ten largest cities, and destroyed the Catholic church there. The Christian population fled.
Daily Reflection — God Speaks through His Son
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:05 pm “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through...
Powerful Lessons from St. Joseph for Catholic Men in the New Year
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm As the father of a nineteen-year-old with high-functioning autism, I am sometimes challenged to give my oldest child the focus and patience he needs from me. I frequently feel...
Daily Catholic Quote — from St. Thomas Becket
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Hereafter, I want you to tell me, candidly and in secret, what people are saying about me. And if you see anything in me that you regard as a fault, feel free to tell me in...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 62:1-2
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly...
