It might be too terrible a thing to think about! But, if you’re living in the West, coffee might never have ever found its way to you. At least, if it wasn’t for a certain forward-thinking pope who was willing to go against the counsel of his advisers....
In your devotional life, don’t forget about St. Joseph! He has one of the most important roles in salvation history: husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster-father of Jesus himself, guardian of the Holy Family. But because Scripture doesn’t tell us very much about him – he isn’t...
Lord, have mercy. You may have already heard: a group of feminists in Argentina marked International Women’s Day earlier this month in a most vile way: they acted out an abortion on a woman dressed up as a pregnant Blessed Virgin Mary, who was happily celebrating the deed, in...
Catholics are not supposed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent. Everyone knows that. (Catholics are also supposed to do penance on Fridays all year round; read more here.) But sometimes there are exceptions! This Friday, March 17th 2017, might be one of those exceptions for you, depending on where...
There are only three popes in all of Church history who have earned the title “the Great” at the end of their names. And all three lived in the 1st millennium (unless you count St. John Paul II as a fourth). St. Gregory the Great reigned from the end of...
So much for the “war” between science and faith! Jaime Maldonado-Aviles was studying the neurological causes of addiction and depression as a post-doctoral fellow at Yale, when it hit him: was this really what God wanted him to be doing? It wasn’t that neuroscience wasn’t valuable, of course....
