Church / Church History / Saints / Women and the Church
by Admin · Published January 18, 2020 · Last modified January 14, 2020
In part 2 of the Pauline Jaricot story, Colleen Constable explains how Pauline was miraculously cured, how she handled betrayal and poverty, and what lessons her life holds for us today. Long before St...
Evil & Persecution / Pope Francis / Saints
by CNS · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
By Carol Glatz – Despite increased persecution and attacks against Christians, the faithful must strengthen their courage and joyful desire to follow Christ no matter the cost, Pope Francis said last year on the...
Church / Church History / Prayer / Saints
by Tamar SC · Published December 26, 2019 · Last modified December 25, 2019
Fr Steve Grunow, Word on Fire Ministries – Today the Church remembers the witness of Saint Stephen, the first of the Church’s martyrs. The cruelty of his death is recorded in the Acts of...
Church / Pope Francis / Saints
by CNS · Published December 21, 2019 · Last modified December 20, 2019
The saints are “the true light of the church,” so before they are proposed to all Catholics for imitation and veneration, a scrupulous investigation is required, Pope Francis said. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of...
Church / Fr Runaine Radine / Saints
by Fr Runaine Radine · Published December 2, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
The month of November is punctuated by a number of important feast days in the Roman calendar, beginning with All Saints Day. It has long been a pious Catholic custom of naming people, places...
Church / Daluxolo Moloantoa / Saints
by Daluxolo Moloantoa · Published November 26, 2019 · Last modified November 24, 2019
By Daluxo Moloantoa – In a first for the Catholic Church in South Africa, a local couple has been given the status of Servants of God by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in the...
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria announced. He said the Vatican had just notified him of the beatification and he was announcing the news “with...
By Dave Hrbacek – A German Messerschmitt fighter plane was bearing down on Don Stoliel’s B-17 bomber as he flew a mission during World War II. Stoliel, the pilot, looked out the windshield of his...
Ss Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. Prayer Saints Perpetua and Felicity, watch over all mothers and children who...
Church / Pope Francis / Saints
by CNS · Published November 5, 2019 · Last modified November 13, 2019
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis has approved adding the December 10 feast of Our Lady of Loreto to all calendars and liturgical books for the celebration of the Mass and the Liturgy of...
Church / Feast Days / Parish Life / Saints
by Admin · Published November 4, 2019 · Last modified October 31, 2019
St Francis of Assisi parish in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, celebrated St Francis’ feast day starting with Mass said by parish priest Fr Tony Thouard OFM together with OFM provincial Fr Sphelele Gwanisheni and Fr Paddy Noonan...
By Cindy Wooden – The saints were flesh-and-blood people whose lives included real struggles and joys, and whose holiness reminds all the baptized that they, too, are called to be saints, Pope Francis said....
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