May is celebrated as the month dedicated to Mary. Many parishes will ask their children to participate in a May Crowning, in which one student will be selected to place a crown of flowers atop the Blessed Virgin’s head, crowning her the Queen of the May. Besides knowing that...
This looks really cool! Blogger Amy Brooks is working on a beautiful new journaling book for Catholics girls, and it’s now available for pre-order. Called Be Yourself! A Journal for Catholic Girls, it will have “more than 80 pages of fun activities, quizzes, personal ‘letters’ from women saints, and...
Most Catholics know that Lent is a time of fasting, prayer, and alms giving. But for many it is also a time to abstain from some of our more frivolous pastimes. The idea behind giving up things like television and social media is to make a meaningful sacrifice for God...
Every Lent people want to acquire a deeper prayer life. For many, this includes the desire to pray the rosary daily. Now that we are several days into Lent, how is that Lenten resolution going? Have you prayed it faithfully every day since Ash Wednesday? After you finish praying, do...
I encountered Aurora Griffin one evening at the Opus Dei-run Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC, where she was giving a talk and holding a book-signing. The email that I received, informing me of the occasion, advertised the event with the title “God and Woman at Harvard,” playing off of...
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...
