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Would you like to read more of the Bible? There is an app that might be able to help, called Truth & Life (you may have seen its “Download Jesus” advertisements). It’s an audio version of the Bible, featuring popular celebrity voices like Neal McDonough, Stacy Keach, Kristen Bell,...
Lord, have mercy. You may have already heard: a group of feminists in Argentina marked International Women’s Day earlier this month in a most vile way: they acted out an abortion on a woman dressed up as a pregnant Blessed Virgin Mary, who was happily celebrating the deed, in...
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...
There are only three popes in all of Church history who have earned the title “the Great” at the end of their names. And all three lived in the 1st millennium (unless you count St. John Paul II as a fourth). St. Gregory the Great reigned from the end of...
I’m part of a relatively small parish in Arkansas, and there is only one other Catholic church in our county. We are share a priest with that congregation. And this year during Lent, like countless other parishes across the country, my parish will hold a penance service. If we...
The next time someone accuses the Church of discouraging intellectual exploration that could benefit humanity, one would do well to bring the following thinkers to bear upon the discussion: 1) Louis Pasteur – Inventor of Pasteurization Louis Pasteur, inventor of the process pasteurization (one of the biggest breakthroughs ever for preventing...
