It’s a new world. Bishops are sharing memes on Facebook. Richard Umbers was consecrated a bishop just about a year ago and is serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney. We previously shared a hilarious video he posted on his Facebook page of his mom giving...
You’re probably already familiar with holy water. But how well do you know blessed salt? Both holy water and blessed salt are sacramentals, or sacred signs that dispose people to receive grace (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium 60; not to be confused with Sacraments). The use of salt for religious purposes...
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Catholic schools provide an invaluable service to our communities! That was the message Rosanna Scotto, co-host of the morning TV program Good Day New York, gave on a video recorded for New Evangelization Television (NET), an initiative of the Diocese of Brooklyn. “I’m a product of Catholic schools,” she...
Jim McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture stores in Houston and nicknamed “Mattress Matt,” is being lauded as a local hero in Houston for opening his furniture stores to those made homeless by hurricane Harvey – and he cites his Catholic faith as his inspiration. “I was raised as a Catholic,” he...
One of the key principles of Protestantism that distinguishes it from Catholicism is sola scriptura, or “Scripture alone.” Though it’s interpreted differently among Protestants, it generally means that the Bible is either the highest or sole authority for Christians, trumping ecclesiastical authority and tradition. The Catholic Church rejects sola...
