As you may have heard, there was a terrible attack on a Missionaries of Charity convent and nursing home for the elderly and disabled persons in Aden, Yemen. It left 16 dead, including 4 of the religious sisters. “For me there is no doubt that the sisters have been victims...
In the Gospels, Jesus holds up a piece of bread and says, “This is my body.” Since the 1st century, Catholic Christians have taken him at his word. Catholics believe that Jesus is really, truly, and substantially present – body, blood, soul, and divinity – in the Eucharist. And so, though we...
Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called on Christians today to pray that God would not allow a World War III. “We exhort all Christians and all believers of God,” they wrote in a joint declaration, “to pray fervently to the providential Creator of the world to… not...
Dennis Di Mauro was a Lutheran man with a Catholic wife, and he was saddened that Protestants had rejected the rosary. “I have read some excellent articles on how the rosary is completely ecumenical in spirit and fully seeks to unite all Christians in prayer,” he writes, explaining he had...
“This kind of demon cannot be cast out except by prayer and fasting.” – Jesus, Matthew 17.21 Cardinal Robert Sarah only recently became known on the international stage. A holy, courageous man who can articulate the faith with love and clarity, Cardinal Sarah was a major player in the recent...
Jesus must love this! A toddler in Seneca, SC was caught praying on her own on her baby monitor by her parents. Normally, her parents pray with her when putting her to bed, but they skipped it that night because they were rushing to catch a Carolina Panthers game. So...
