It’s irresponsible to despair. A lot of people went to sleep Tuesday night or woke up Wednesday morning wondering what to do. Neither presumptive candidate for the major political parties appears acceptable to many people of conscience. What this amounts to is a wake-up call
Imagine yourself in a 13th-century North African prison where you are being held for refusing to renounce your Catholic faith. Conditions are cruel, and you are losing hope of seeing your family again. You wonder if it wouldn’t be so bad to convert to Islam.
Catholics at an alarming rate are ignoring Church teaching, Scripture when making their decisions As Catholics, we hear over and over again — especially during an election year — that we have to vote our conscience. Unfortunately, according to a new and extensive survey, even
Everything collapsed around it, but the glass case with the statue of our Lady of Light remained intact after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador on April 16. The statue was housed at the Leonie Aviat school in the Tarqui administrative district in Manta
If you are driving on the highway and get lost, or have some car trouble, you might ask St. Frances of Rome to intercede for you. Pope Pius XI in 1925 named her patron saint of automobile drivers based on the legend that St. Frances’
Despite Pope Francis’ overwhelming popularity, only about one-in-ten American Catholics say they turn to the pope “a great deal” for guidance on difficult moral questions, according to a Pew Research Center survey on religion in everyday life. Rather, most Catholics say they look inward for
WASHINGTON (CNS) — On the International Space Station there’s a place, while filled with robotic equipment, where astronauts like to hang out. Called the Cupola, the small module has seven large bay windows that give crew members a panoramic view of Earth. On his first
While we all have busy lives, we should better appreciate the moments we have with God. Just when you thought you’ve seen and heard just about everything when it comes to problems in the pews, another incident comes along and leaves you speechless — a
Fr Thomas Byles, I am convinced, was a holy man. And miracles are already being attributed to his intercession. Fr Hugh Allen, abbot of the Norbertines in Chelmsford, once told me that he had a devotion not to St John Vianney, the “Curé d’Ars”, but
When Dafne Gutierrez, a 30-year-old blind mother of three, stood in front of a priest for a blessing, she felt there was someone standing on her right. Her family told her later that the priest was standing on her left side. “There was somebody [on
