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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Mental Prayer - SISTER MARY ANN SULLIVAN, O.P.If mental prayer, is a gift, freely given, what are we to do? It is simple. We watch and wait and cooperate as best we can. Our task is to be like the wise virgins who kept their lamps ready. Read more... Message for Lent 2001 - Pope John Paul II“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem” (Mk 10:33). With these words, the Lord invites the disciples to journey with him along the road that leads from Galilee to the place where he will complete his redemptive mission. The road towards Jerusalem, which the Evangelists present as the crowning point of Jesus’ earthly journey, is the model for the Christian who is committed to following the Teacher on the Way of the Cross. Read more... Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2007 - Pope Benedict XVIDear brothers and sisters, let us look at Christ pierced in the Cross! He is the unsurpassing revelation of God’s love, a love in which eros and agape, far from being opposed, enlighten each other. Read more... Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2009 - Pope Benedict XVIFor this year's Lenten Message, I wish to focus my reflections especially on the value and meaning of fasting. Read more... Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2011 - Pope Benedict XVIThe Lenten period, which leads us to the celebration of Holy Easter, is for the Church a most valuable and important liturgical time, in view of which I am pleased to offer a specific word in order that it may be lived with due diligence. Read more... Message of His Holiness John Paul II for Lent 2005 - Pope John Paul IIMessing with the Mass: The problem of priestly narcissism today - Paul Vitz & Daniel C. VitzIt has been frequently noted that the mass since Vatican II has fallen victim to various kinds of irregularities. Read more... Michelangelo's final murals restored in Vatican City - Pamela LutherAfter being hidden under scaffolding for five years, the Vatican has unveiled the restored Cappella Paolina, the Pauline Chapel. Read more... Miracles - PETER KREEFTThe modern sceptic typically assumes that everything we experience can be explained by the sciences without any supernatural agency, any God, any miracles? Here are twelve common forms this objection takes in our day along with twelve brilliant responses by Peter Kreeft. Read more... Missing Mass for No Reason - Rev. William SaundersI was visiting relatives over Easter, and sadly they do not attend Mass. I went to Mass, and reminded them that missing Mass was a mortal sin. They said, "Oh, that was in the old days. Missing Mass is no longer a mortal sin." What do you say? Please give me some ammunition. Read more... Modest Dress in the Modern World - Fr. William SaundersRecently I attended a wedding and the bride wore a gown with her shoulders bare and a good bit of her back and front exposed. When I was growing up, such dress would not be allowed in Church. Are there any norms for modest dress? Read more... Moral Responsibility - Father Kenneth Baker, S.J.A fundamental difference between a human person and a tree or a cow is that the person is held responsible for his actions (at least some of them), while the tree and the cow are not said to be responsible for their actions. Read more... Moral Truth and the End of Man - Senator Rick SantorumIntellectual formation — building intellectual capital — is all about conforming our minds to the truth. But as I said at the start, truth and goodness go hand in hand. So we also have to talk about how morality fits into the formation of intellectual capital. To do that, please permit me to dig a little deeper into philosophy than is usual in a book on public policy. Read more... More Reflections on the Incarnation - Fr. Kenneth Baker, S.J.It is a dogma of Catholic faith that God became man in Jesus. We profess our belief in this article every time we pray the Creed. Read more... Most Precious Treasure - Tim DrakeHistorically, perpetual eucharistic adoration was reserved only for cloistered convents and monasteries. Today it is a form of devotion on the increase among the laity. "People come to adoration because they are hungry and thirsty for the Lord," says Father Conlin, pastor of St. Columba Parish in St. Paul. "They find peace by being with him and they come away more focused, more courageous and more generous in living their faith." Read more... Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality - Raymond ArroyoAre you unsure of your purpose in life? Stuck in the past and worried about the future? Hamstrung by fear, failure, or trials? Mother is here to help. Read more... Mother Angelica: She Left Hell and Took to the Air; TV nun celebrates 20 ye - Tim DrakeMother Angelica founded the Eternal Word Network 20 years ago. She speaks candidly here with Register features correspondent Tim Drake about her difficult childhood, finding her vocation, and starting EWTN. Read more... Mozart: A proof of God - Father George W. RutlerThe rabbis talking with the twelve-year-old Jesus about the Torah must have thought that he was a child prodigy. Read more... Music to Our Ears: a Review of the Pope’s New Book - Brad MinerCardinal Ratzinger approached the ageing John Paul II and asked to be relieved of his curial duties — and to be named head of the Vatican Library. We know Papa Wojtyla said no. We don't know if he had a good laugh over it. Read more... Must Catholics Marry in a Church? - FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERSDo Catholics have to be married in the Catholic Church? The "straight answer" is simply "yes," but let’s understand also the "why." Read more... My sheep hear my voice - Deacon Douglas McManamanThe faithful know the voice of their shepherd and they know when it differs from the voice of a stranger, even if that stranger is wearing a bishop's miter or a clerical collar. Read more... Narcissism and the Dynamics of Evil - Douglas McManamanThe first step to appreciating the subtleties of evil is to begin at the most basic level of philosophical inquiry, the philosophy of being. Read more... Natural Family Planning (part 4) - Fr. William SaundersWhile condemning the use of contraception, the Church also recognizes that some couples face serious situations in their marriage and family which move them to postpone a pregnancy, even indefinitely. Read more... New Research Confirms Life After Death - National Catholic RegisterSurvivors of close brushes with death recount a common story of the journey that they almost took into the afterlife. Until now, scientists have been almost universally skeptical of these claims. Read more... Newman and the Church - Russell ShawIf, as now seems likely, the Pope is going to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman in the not too distant future, Catholics all across the ideological spectrum will celebrate the event. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ... [>>] Related Categories:
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