So many of us have grown up in the hookup culture that we’ve become desensitized, or perhaps completely unaware, of the waters in which we are swimming. As such, we’ve lost sight of the purpose for...
Sometimes the ideas flow freely, but other days they don’t seem to come at all; that’s perfectly okay! Here’s a list of a few of my favorite starters – some questions to answer and some ideas to...
I had no real idea why horoscopes or fortune tellers were wrong, I just thought it was another “rule” that adults wanted to impose upon me to keep me from having fun. I had no idea that, at the core...
Watch and marvel as this artist meticulously restores a 150-year-old beautiful painting of Our Lady. Julian Baumgartner of the Baumgartner... The post There’s Something Therapeutic About...
This week on the podcast the readings have a distinct pattern. The person has an encounter with God, is moved... The post Encounter Conversion Mission | Liturgy Live 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
My husband walked into the living room, stood there for a minute, then interrupted me mid-lip-sync with, “That song is... The post That Song Is Heretical – Should Catholics Listen To “Christian Music”
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“The Kids Are Alright” is a new sitcom on ABC that is somewhat inspired by the childhood of writer and... The post “The Kids Are Alright” – Could There Really Be A Catholic Show On Network TV...
Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican's new editorial director, says the pope's summit on clerical sexual abuse is not a meeting of experts or technicians, but of pastors.
Even if Christians struggle to recognize him with his "torn clothes (and) dirty feet," Jesus is present in the migrants and refugees who seek safety and a dignified life in a new land, Pope...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic bishops near the U.S.-Mexico border, joined by other U.S. prelates, voiced opposition immediately after...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even if Christians struggle to recognize him with his "torn clothes (and) dirty feet," Jesus is present in the migrants...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A group of city commissioners in the border city of McAllen, Texas, voted in mid-February to remove from a building a popular...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion By Sean Gallagher INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- The openness to people of other faiths that Pope Francis modeled during his Feb. 3-5 visit to the United Arab...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Barbara Fraser By Barbara J. Fraser LETICIA, Colombia (CNS) -- Rafael Noteno Capinoa, a Kichwa Indian, worries about what could happen to the forest around his village on Peru's Napo...
By Tito Edwards | The Velatio Nuptialis: An Ancient (& Forgotten) Part of the Latin Marriage Rite ☩ Gregory DiPippo of New Liturgical Movement +1 The Lost World of Christendom...
By Edward Pentin | Cardinal Robert Sarah is to publish a new book, this time on the “profound spiritual, moral and political crisis in the contemporary world.” The book, the last volume of three...
By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — A joint Catholic-Muslim declaration signed by Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi earlier this month was praised for trying to push back a drift toward a “clash of...
By Kathy Schiffer | Some years ago, a co-worker told me the story of the Vacuum Cleaner and the Bow. My co-worker was by nature a neatnik, putting his dirty clothes in the hamper and...
By K.V. Turley | It is fair to say that just as the Duke of Wellington, then British Prime Minister, laid his own political career on the line to deliver the Roman Catholic Relief Act on April 12...