Religious orders and traditions are an important part of the Church. Here is what you need to know about 9 of the most important ones! From the Catholic-Link resource library [See also: QUIZ: Can You Match These Habits With Their Religious Order?] [See also: The Amazing Young Nuns that Blew...
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...
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....
Don’t believe the headlines! Have you heard the news that Pope Francis preached it was better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Catholic? It’s in the headlines from Reuters, CNN, The Guardian, and many others. There’s only one problem: that is not what he said. They’...
Wow – I had no idea! A new book entitled I Met Paul VI reveals some pretty incredible facts about the life of Pope Paul VI. Written by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the book is more a collection of stories about the late pontiff than a full blown biography. Archbishop Fisichella worked...
A lot of people have been asking: How much did that Pope Francis video message to the Super Bowl cost the Vatican? Did they spend millions of dollars?? First, to clear up some confusion: ChurchPOP regrettably erroneously reported that the Pope’s video message would be shown on TV during...
