Lord, have mercy! Two statues of Our Blessed Mother were beheaded in the Pomona Valley, Cali. area within the last month, according to CBS Los Angeles. The most recent attack occurred Mar. 30 at Saint Margaret Mary’s Church in Chino, Calif. The vandal beheaded a statue of Our Lady...
One of the more overlooked facts from the parable of the Prodigal Son is that after the younger brother has wasted all his inheritance, he knows his father is merciful. He counts on that mercy, but does not presume upon it; he only expects his father to bring him on...
This is so heartbreaking! 😭 Since early February, vandals desecrated more than a dozen Catholic Churches throughout France. They’ve looted, burned, destroyed statues, threw consecrated hosts all over the floors, and marked a cross on the wall with human feces. One of these churches was the Church of Saint-Sulpice in...
How often do you hear these misconceptions about the Catholic Church? On this week’s episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan DellaCrosse, Ryan Scheel, and Fr. Rich Pagano discuss the misconceptions often believed about Catholic Church teaching. Scheel explains that many of these points result from indifference to faith...
It is said that for the Catholic Church to be renewed it will take the laity. This is absolutely true for 3 reasons. 1) The laity make up the overwhelming amount of the Church. They have strength in numbers. This doesn’t mean that the Church is a democracy. No,...
Take up your cross and follow me. Perhaps those words have been greatly tamed over the years. Perhaps we see them as taking up our burdens and following Christ. But the Cross wasn’t a mere burden. The cross was means of execution. Painful execution. It would be like Jesus...
