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“For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm See more photos here.
Why does Catholic marriage prep fail?
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm Last week we heard from Alexa Covington and her experience hiring a marriage and family therapist before she and her husband got married, because they felt their parish’s marriage...
Cybershopping: 9 Handmade Christmas gifts from monks and nuns
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm There’s still time to take care of some of your Christmas shopping online. Why not try these lovely gifts, handmade by monks and nuns from monasteries and religious communities?...
God’s holy weapons against Satan, Part 1: The gift of prophecy
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge” (Dante, ‘Inferno,’ Canto 26). The spiritual life is a...
“We help people because we’re Catholic, not because they’re Catholic.”
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm The former bishop of Dallas, Kevin J. Cardinal Farrell, recently received the inaugural “Upstander Award” from the Dallas Holocaust Museum Center for Education and Tolerance in...
21 Regrets people confess on their deathbeds
Aleteia - Dec 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm We’ve all heard the old saying that “People on their deathbeds don’t say, ‘I wish I’d spent more time at work…'” More often, people’s regrets are truly about “what I have done,...
Swiss bishops ask pardon for sexual abuse
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2016 at 10:51 pm Switzerland’s bishops gathered at Valère Basilica in Sion on December 5 and asked God for forgiveness for sexual abuse within the Church.
Cardinal Koch: it is better to commemorate the Reformation than to celebrate it
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2016 at 10:30 pm The president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity told a French Catholic newspaper that it is better to “commemorate” the 500th anniversary of the Protestant...
Pallium Mass a celebration of local link to pope
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 6, 2016 at 10:27 pm Since July, Archbishop Bernard Hebda has kept a small brown box in his office with something Pope Francis gave him, but he hasn’t yet been able to use. It is his neatly folded...
Fascinating: What Christmas Services Looked Like Around the World in 1950
ChurchPOP - Dec 6, 2016 at 10:16 pm This is really cool! The video below shows the beautiful diversity in church services and traditions to celebrate Christmas around the world
The post Fascinating: What Christmas...
God’s biker: Polish Catholic priest just wants to read Scripture with outlaw bikies
The Catholic Leader - Dec 6, 2016 at 9:36 pm BRISBANE Catholic priest Fr Andrzej Kolaczkowski likes nothing more than spending time in fellowship with outlaw bikie club members, sharing the Gospel. “There’s something really...
O Antiphons Overview
Big C Catholics - Dec 6, 2016 at 9:09 pm The liturgical season of Advent has two parts, both of which look to the coming of the Lord. The first part of Advent, which immediately follows the feast of Christ the King and...
The big question: What does Christianity say happens to believers after death?
GetReligion - Dec 6, 2016 at 6:33 pm
PAULA’S QUESTION:
When people say their loved one went to heaven, why doesn’t the preacher tell them that no-one goes straight to heaven? If they did, what would be the reason...
Yes, Virginia
The Curt Jester - Dec 6, 2016 at 6:14 pm This is the perfect short story for the Memorial of St. Nicholas, “Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus”
This short story by John C. Wright touches on St. Nicholas of Myra, the...
How the Catholic Church could help the crisis in the DRC
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 6, 2016 at 5:47 pm Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 6, 2016 / 04:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In late September, Pope Francis met with the controversial president of the Democratic Republic of...
Bp. Schneider: attacks on Four Cardinals, Five Dubia like time of Soviet Union
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 6, 2016 at 5:29 pm At LifeSite we read interesting remarks by Bp. Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan. Bp. Schneider made an interesting comparison. about a conference held in Rome. Present were the...
This is it!
LifeSiteNews - Dec 6, 2016 at 5:17 pm Today is the first day of LifeSite’s year-end Christmas fundraising campaign. The Christmas campaign is by far our most important fundraiser of the year - so much so that the...
This is it!
LifeSiteNews - Dec 6, 2016 at 5:12 pm Today is the first day of LifeSite’s year-end Christmas fundraising campaign - by far our most important fundraiser of the year! This year we must raise a minimum of $300,000 by...
New Jersey Legislators Push Bill Banning Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks
LifeNews.com - Dec 6, 2016 at 4:56 pm New Jersey state lawmakers urged passage of a bill on Monday to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks when unborn babies can feel pain.
Pro-life state lawmakers introduced the Pain...
Abortion Clinics Have to Dispose of 2,700 Aborted Babies Every Day, Some Grind Them Up in Disposals
LifeNews.com - Dec 6, 2016 at 4:51 pm A new paper by Charlotte Lozier Institute associate scholar Kristi Burton Brown, J.D., examines U.S. laws and practices surrounding the disposition of bodies of aborted babies....
