Visions of Our Lady: Mary Asks for Prayers for World Leaders
September 21, 2012 No Comments“I want to call you to pray for all the rulers, that they may promote peace and work for the good of man with the power that God has given them…”
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Lord, Teach Us To Pray: The Path to Peace Passes Through Prayer
September 21, 2012 No CommentsJesus comes to live in all who make a place for Him within the center of their lives. This “making a place” is the essence of Christian prayer. It is not about doing, but about being. The Lord wants us to freely choose to respond to His continual invitations to love. We will only find our fulfillment as human persons by entering into that kind of relationship. This is the meaning and purpose of life itself.
Interview with Archbishop Chaput on Catholic Social Teaching
September 20, 2012 2 CommentsI certainly can’t vote for somebody who’s either pro-choice or pro-abortion.I’m not a Republican and I’m not a Democrat. I’m registered as an independent, because I don’t think the church should be identified with one party or another….
Fr Dwight Longenecker Asks: Does Faith Work?
September 19, 2012 No CommentsAs a priest one of the things I find most difficult is to help people realize that the faith they profess is practical. It works. Of all the expressions of the Christian faith, it is the Catholic faith which is the most down to earth. Catholicism is nuts and bolts religions. It is meat and potatoes. The Catholic faith wears working clothes.
A Novena to the Mother of God for Our Nation
September 17, 2012 2 Comments“Never was it known that anyone who fled to Thy protection, implored Thy help or sought Thy intercession was left UNAIDED,”
Editor’s Pick: Finding Living Faith on Catechetical Sunday by Fr. Paul Schenck
September 16, 2012 No CommentsPope Benedict has said “Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience his closeness, his friendship, his love; only in this way does one learn to know him ever more, and to love and follow him ever more. May this happen to each one of us.”
The Happy Priest on How to Find Inner Peace
September 14, 2012 No CommentsA serious life of prayer is very important for the times in which we live. The traditional structures of support that have made our lives comfortable and easy in the past are longer present. It is becoming increasingly difficult to live a Christian life in our present day culture.
In the Face of Danger, Successor of Peter Travels to Lebanon as a Messenger of Peace
September 14, 2012 No CommentsOne can only expect that many among those who care for the Pope in his Petrine ministry have expressed their concerns for his safety given the escalation of violence in the region. However, this danger will not deter his determination to visit the region. He is a man of great courage and profound living faith. We ask our readers around the world to pray for him during this historic visit.
We Cannot Ignore Our Consciences: Cardinal Dolan On Religious Liberty
September 13, 2012 No CommentsSpeaking on the theme of “Let Religious Freedom Ring”, Cardinal Dolan noted that “freedom of religion has been the driving force of almost every enlightened, un-shackling, noble cause in American history. Thus, the defense of religious freedom is not some evangelical Christian polemic, or wiley strategy of discredited Catholic bishops, but the quintessential American cause, the first line in the defense of and protection of human rights,” he said.
Model who converted in Medjugorje had vision of St. Padre Pio
September 13, 2012 No Commentsby the side of my bed stood this man, older, with a beard, and he was looking at me, shaking his head. I thought that it was some kind of hallucination….
