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The 'O' Antiphons - O Sapientia
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 30, 2016 at 12:00 am LATIN: O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodidisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviter disponensque omnia: veni ad docendum nos ...
Love 'til the very end - Elderly man dies while attempting to revive wife
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 30, 2016 at 12:00 am Johnny Hatley discovered his wife of 31 years on the floor of their home in Stanly County, North Carolina on Sunday.
The 'O' Antiphons - O Rex Gentium
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 30, 2016 at 12:00 am LATIN: O Rex gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti.
Papal condolences following plane crash in Colombia
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:59 pm Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has two telegrams of condolence on Pope Francis’s behalf following the crash in Colombia of an airplane carrying members...
Catholic school students are rewriting the future for Brisbane’s refugees and migrants
The Catholic Leader - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:40 pm STUDENTS at Chisholm Catholic College, Cornubia, are rewriting the future for refugees and migrants through a pioneering project titled Liberation Letters. Under strict and close...
EU prelates affirm importance of hospitality to migrants, religious freedom
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:40 pm Representatives of different religions, including two Catholic bishops, took part in an annual dialogue with a leading EU official on November 29.
Cardinal: social dimension of mercy at heart of Pope Francis’s teaching
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:07 pm Writing on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia described the social dimension of mercy as the “common thread” that links three key...
Daily Reflection — The Many Ways God Calls to Us
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:05 pm Be sure to watch the video at the end after you read this post… One morning, my wife and I ate breakfast at la Madeleine—Country French for me and scrambled with croissant for my...
A Guide for Reading Sigrid Undset
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:04 pm If you must read Sigrid Undset—and I recommend you do—you’d better be prepared. Be prepared for an emotional ride. Sigrid Undset is a woman, by the way, and a major Norwegian...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in...
Encountering the Word — Hebrews 8:13
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” (...
WATCH: How the forest can heal you
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm The natural world is a gift from God and created to be more than a backdrop to our lives. Research shows that spending time in nature — even something as simple as taking a walk...
For Mother Teresa, the “joy of loving” contains the seeds of suffering, too
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm Mother Teresa is officially a saint, one of the gifts of the just-wrapped-up jubilee year of mercy. So what does mercy look like? How can you and I be saints? Her life is a school...
How it’s spiritually valuable to think about all the stuff you want
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm What do you want right now, at this very moment? It doesn’t have to be big, or even important. What’s the first thing that comes to mind? This isn’t an idle question. After all...
The sin-eaters and the lost sacraments
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm When he finished eating, the man would “pronounce, with a composed gesture, the ease and rest of the Soul departed, for which he would pawn his own Soul.” That “would” seems...
Guilt — It’s a good thing!
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm I watched far too much Comedy Central growing up, but I learned two important lessons from it: 1) you don’t have to be especially funny to get on TV, and 2) an awful lot of stand-...
Prepare for Christmas with the Saint Andrew Novena
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm The Feast of Saint Andrew has always been closely associated with the beginning of Advent as it usually falls shortly after the First Sunday of Advent. In light of that fact, for...
The strategies of Satan, Part 3: The “Cain” tactic
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm “If you don’t want to go to Mass, why would you want to go to Heaven?” That’s not a flippant question—it points to the deepest root of spiritual warfare. In Part 1 and Part 2 of...
Irish worker discovers ancient manuscript that links Irish church to Egypt
Aleteia - Nov 29, 2016 at 11:00 pm In 2006 an Irish worker discovered an amazing find while digging in a bog with his backhoe at Fadden More. Sticking out of the earth was an ancient manuscript, miraculously intact...
