Asking for Mercy

Pope John Paul II refers to the need to pray for mercy with a new urgency for our own times: "At no time… especially at a moment as cri...

Prayer to be Merciful to Others

This prayer gives us a true measure of our mercy, a mirror in which we observe ourselves as merciful Christs. We can make it our morning inv...

Difference Between Living in the Divine Will and Doing the Will of God

May 31, 1926 Volume 19The Difference Between Who Lives In the Divine Will and Who is Resigned and Submitted. The First is Sun; the Other is ...

40 Days for Life Campaign, beginning this Fall

Check out the trailer for the 40 days for life Campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On9jankGqB0&feature=related Check out their webs...

Prayers to Eliminate Racism

Prayers for the Elimination of Racism To God the Father, Creator of all races and peoples, who loves each of us for our uniqueness, we offer...

Fight World Slavery

Let us fight to erradicate from the face of the earth the 27 million men, women and children that continue to be oppressed by the scourge of...

St. Peter Claver, September 9

St. Peter Claver (1580-1654) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to Latin America. He is known as the "Apostle of the West Indies" and...

Happy Birthday Mary

JMJ AMDG Let us celebrate our Lady's Birthday by singing the MANANITAS, a very beautiful song from Mexico. Here is the link to that vide...

Novena to Fr. Bruno Lanteri

NOVENA TO VEN. FR. LANTERI (Founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary) in preparation for the celebration of the titular Feast of the Oblate...

Prayer for Priests

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord, keep them, for they are Thine - Thy priests whose lives burn out before thy conse...

Let us NOT FORGET the MIRACLE IN MEXICO, Swine Flu under Control

On Sunday April 26th the Catholic Church took out in solemn procession throughout the streets of Mexico City the statue of the Christ of Hea...

Medjugorje Messages to Mirjana

JMJ AMDG Once again the Church remains the ultimate source of authority in determining the authenticity of any private revelations including...

Who are the Homophobes?

Interesting article by Peter Heck. http://www.peterheck.com/columns Who are the homophobes? Peter Heck - Guest Columnist - 4/8/2009 10:25:00...

Characteristics of the Risen Body

From the Catholic Encyclopedia: All shall rise from the dead in their own, in their entire, and in immortal bodies; but the good shall rise...

Obituary for Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was,...

Who are the Intolerants?

I do not follow beauty paegants, nor watch much TV either, but I was appalled to hear the commentaries by one of the Judges of the Miss USA ...

Do not Judge a Book by its Cover

We live in such a world that we are always tempted to judge people based on appearances , and we tend to look down on people that do not loo...

Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and Consecrated Life

Today as we celebrate Holy Saturday, our Lord asked St. Faustina to pray in the Novena of Divine Mercy for the souls of priests and religiou...

Novena to the Divine Mercy

Jesus asked that the Feast of the Divine Mercy be preceded by a Novena to the Divine Mercy which would begin on Good Friday . He gave St. ...

Walter Hoye is Free from Jail

Walter Hoye, a pastor at a Berkeley church was jailed for 30 days after unsuccessfully arguing that an order requiring him to stay 100 yards...

Pastor Rick Warren Supports Homosexual Agenda

It has been reported that Pastor Rick Warren, the famous California mega-church pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick, has apolo...

Tonly Blair Correcting the Pope on Homosexuality

It has been reported that Tony Blair who became a Catholic on December 2007, and now he is correcting the Pope and telling Catholics what we...

Messages from Our Lady of Medjugorje - March

Latest Monthly Medjugorje Message, March 25, 2009 “Dear children! In this time of spring, when everything is awakening from the winter sleep...

Burial or Cremation?

For the first Christians, the resurrection after death was a strong reality. They did everything they could to be able to bury the bodies of...

The Signs before the Day of Judgement

The Gospel of St. Matthew speaks to us about the tribulations and events that will take place before the final Judgement. This is what our L...

Aramaic still spoken in Maaloula, Syria

Aramaic has been extinct for many centuries. However in Maaloula, a small village in Syria , Aramaic is still alive. The word Maaloula means...

Apparitions of the Blessed Mother in Akita

Perhaps one of the less known approved apparitions of Our Lady are those of Akita. The three messages were given by Our Lady in 1973. The ap...

I THIRST FOR YOU

The author of the following reflection based on the writings of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta does not want to be identified. I wanted t...

St. Faustina and the Practice of the Present Moment

To practice mercy and compassion, St Faustina wrote of the importance of living in the present moment and using it to love God and others wi...

Protecting Conscience Rights in Health Care

Brothers and Sisters: The attached video by Cardinal George (2 ½ minutes) and the 30 seconds it takes to fill in the user information/home a...

Holy Year of Priests- 19 June 2009 to 19 June 2010

Today I am happy to celebrate my seventh anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. It is also with great joy that on this day the Hol...

Mary the Perfect Model of Humility

The following is an edited excerpt from some of Fr. Hardon's writings on the Eucharist. In this particular article he shows how Mary wa...

Anti-Catholic Bill 1098 Pulled today- VICTORY for the Catholic Church

I just got this great news. Notice also the association of Tom Gallagher with the National Catholic Reporter (a left wing so called "C...

Fr. Tim Gallagher, OMV on EWTN

IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY SERIES ON EWTN. Fr. Tim Gallagher, Oblate of the Virgin Mary, will be on EWTN on Friday March 13 at 6:30 a.m. EST ta...

The anti-Catholic Bill in Connecticut: Bill 1098

As we know there is a proposed Bill 1098 before the Judiciary Committee which proposes to modify "corporate laws" for certain reli...