From Integrated Catholic Life As long as we live in the world our life is a constant struggle between love for Christ or giving into lukewarmness, to our passions, or to comfort-seeking, which destroys love. Faithfulness to Christ is forged each day by struggling against what separates us from him, and by an effort to […]
From Our Lady’s Warriors The Life of St. Peter Damian (1007-1072) It appears that whenever Holy Mother Church has had a great need for a special kind of saint for a particular age, God, in His infinite mercy, has never failed to fill that need. And so, in the year 1007 A.D., a boy child […]
From Archdiocese of Washington The Gospel from today’s Mass (Tuesday of the 31st week of the year) features the familiar Lucan version of the parable of a certain man (in the Matthew version (Mat 22:2), Jesus calls him a king) who gave a banquet. But when all was prepared and the servants were sent out […]
From LifeSiteNews Dean Bailey, 50, is not afraid to tell anyone he is living proof that ‘sexual orientation’ can in fact be changed. But he prefers to use the word ‘restored’ rather than ‘changed.’ Bailey remembers how from an early age he felt different from other boys. He felt he did not fit in and […]
October 27, 2014 by Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington website In today’s Office of Readings there is a text from the Book of Wisdom that prophetically interprets the times in which we are living. In the 30 years I have been reading this text in the Breviary, I found that the pieces of […]
Raymond Arroyo on The World Over interviews Fr Gerald Murray and Fr Robert Sirico regarding the 2014 Synod on the Family. Below are a number of articles with different people’s take on what happened. George Weigel: An Extraordinary Synod, Indeed Archbishop Chaput on the Synod Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Against Pharisees Synod’s Final Report “Fails to Resolve […]
From Catholic Exchange After Constantine the Great, there were emperors who were heretics and emperors who adhered to Christian orthodoxy. Then there was Julian the Apostate. From the time of Constantine to the French Revolution, he is the only Christian monarch ever to openly reject the faith, according to Catholic historian Warren Carroll. For reasons […]
From CNS News Reverend Billy Graham, arguably the most well-known and respected evangelical preacher of the last 50 years, said in a recently published commentary that America was “founded by men who believed in prayer” and that prayer can turn “the tide of history,” adding that while “America is just as wicked as Sodom and […]
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Sheila Liaugminas of Relevant Radio interviewed George Weigel regarding the Synod on the Family. This is an edited version of the interview which has been sped-up so that you can listen to the entire interview in less than 15 minutes. If you prefer to listen to the unedited version, click on […]
This year’s Parish Mission features Dan DeMatte, author of the best-selling book, “Holiness Revolution.” The mission will be held on October 27-29, 2014. Please help spread the word with the following resources. A two-minute promotional video A letter-sized flyer A tabloid-sized poster (very large file – right click and save to your desktop).
