This gave me chills! The Midwest Capuchin Franciscan Vocation Office recently posted an amazing new video. Titled simply “The Capuchin Vocation with Pope Saint John Paul II,” it shows clips of Franciscans living their vocation, overlaid with the voice of Pope St. John Paul II giving a riveting sermon about...
This is fun! A religious sister shows off her amazing soccer skills, juggling a soccer ball back and forth with a policeman, in a new viral video. According to the video’s description, the policeman is Garda O’Connell of Henry St Community Policing Unit in Ireland. The name of...
A new video has emerged showing ISIS militants destroying and desecrating a Catholic cathedral church in the Philippines. “That is blasphemy! That’s unacceptable,“ the local Bishop Edwin de la Peña of Marawi told CBCP News. “It’s obvious that their actions are really out of this world. It’s...
[See also: The Meaning of the Strange Birds Hidden in Christian Art Around the World] [See also: How You Can Pray Pope Francis’ “5 Finger Prayer”] From the Catholic-Link resource library [See also: The Hidden Meanings of the Names of the 12 Apostles] [See also: The Forgotten Power of Holy...
Another diocese in the United States announced widespread parish closings and consolidations. They are just the latest in a long line of other dioceses doing the same thing. This is, of course, a painful process. The reason a parish closes is practical: there aren’t enough people attending to support...
I spend a lot of time thinking, reading, and praying about why the Church is decline in this country. The influx of immigrants from Latin America hides the number decline. Even with this influx, every measurable indicator is down: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, priestly ordinations, numbers of men’s and women’...
