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Preparing for Pentecost: Making Room for the Holy Spirit
Prepare for Pentecost by opening your heart to the Holy Spirit. Discover His gifts, fruits, power, and ongoing work in the Church today.
Everything You Need to Know about the Sacred Triduum
The very purpose for which Christmas happened...Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday when Jesus made his final entrance into Jerusalem.
What are the Seven Sacraments and What are their Meanings?
Do you know what a sacrament is? Do you know how many there are? Can you name them? Do you know what they do?
Have you made your plans for the All Souls Indulgence?
This year, why not make a plan before November arrives? Find out when Confession is offered, make time for Mass and Holy Communion, and choose a day to visit a cemetery.
Why did St. Gertrude love the Holy Souls so much?
We can have great confidence that the Church has always encouraged us to pray for the faithful departed. Scripture tells us that "it is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead..."
How do the saints help us to offer it up?
These holy men and women did not cling to their comfort. They embraced their crosses as a way to follow Christ more closely.
What does divinely inspired really mean? Did God actually write the Bible?
In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, “but as what it really is, the word of God.”
The Best First Holy Communion Gifts for Boys: A Buying Guide
In parishes across the country children are being prepared to receive their next Sacrament of Initiation into the Catholic Church: First Communion.
The Noonday Demon: Is This Spiritual Malaise Hiding in Your Ordinary Life?
The fight against acedia is really the fight to keep praying, to stay faithful to God, and to believe that God is present in the very place we are tempted to abandon.
The Deadly Sins Don’t Work Alone: How Vice Spreads and How to Fight Back
Small sins lead to bigger ones, and bigger sins spread sideways into habits, relationships, and patterns of thinking that begin to feel normal.
Emergency Baptisms: How Do They Work?
What happens in an emergency baptism, and how are they done?
Sacrament Spotlight: Holy Baptism
“Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life . . .Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made s...
What does it mean for a relic to be incorruptible?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Christian hope of resurrection extends to the whole person
Sacrament Spotlight: Confirmation
One of the most mysterious sacraments of the Church is Confirmation. Confirmation is unique in that it is both a Sacrament of initiation, meaning that it initiates or begins our Christian life, wh...
Is First Communion a Tradition or a Conviction Among Latinos?
We are soon approaching the 2015 First Communion season. Preparations for your child's First Holy Communion have started. You may be stressed thinking and looking where to find everything you need:...
Did Jesus have brothers?
Did the Blessed Mother actually have more children? Does that mean St. James was Jesus’s brother?
VIDEO: St. Maria Goretti's Relics Venerated by Thousands in Charlotte
From September to November 2015, the relics of St. Maria Goretti were sent from her basilica in Nettuno, Italy, to the United States on a "Pilgrimage of Mercy." The tour went to various parishes in...
Why do we use “sacramentals”?
We’re so accustomed to rosaries, medals, and other sacramentals that we don’t give them a second thought. But why do we use such things?
What St. John Chrysostom Wants Husbands to Say to Their Wives
In honor of the sacred bonds of matrimony being made across the world, and marriage anniversaries being celebrated, here’s a warming quote from one of the most important Doctors of the Catholic Chu...
What is Canon Law, anyway?
And why is it essential to the workings of the Church?
How to Write a Confirmation Letter
Have you been asked to write a letter to someone who is preparing to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation?Many parishes have retreats in which the Confirmation candidates are given letters from th...
What will heaven be like?
Some wonder whether heaven might be dull since suffering and struggle will be gone. But Scripture offers images of worship, rejoicing, celebration, and the “marriage feast of the Lamb”
How Praying for Those I've Lost Has Deepened My Faith
My belief in the Communion of Saints allows me to rest in the hope that my prayers for my loved ones and all who have died may assist them in their journey toward heaven.
God's Children Are Not For Sale
Catholic social teaching declares the dignity of every human being as a child of God and promotes the sanctity of all human life. Every life is a gift, and we have a responsibility to protect and n...