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Pope Benedict XVI at the Helm: The Prophetic Vision of St Don Bosco
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/1/2012
The heroic leadership of this Pope may well represent one more fulfillment of the prophetic vision of the Saint whose Feast we celebrate on this day.This vision could well describe what is occurring in our own day. We need to take our place on the Bark of Peter and follow the Pope as ...
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: Uncompromising Widow, Mother and Catholic
By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 1/4/2012
"If I am right Thy grace impart still in the right to stay. If I am wrong Oh, teach my heart to find the better way" -- the prayer of Elizabeth Ann Seton as she contemplated entry into the fullness of truth found in the Catholic Church: a conversion which would ostracize her from family and ...
The North American Martyrs: Our Founding Fathers in Faith
By Christopher Stefanick • Catholic Online • 10/11/2011
They set out into lands where a violent, gruesome death was constantly before them. We set out into an increasingly anti-religious culture where we might lose a few friends for standing up for the truth. They set out on canoes into uncharted waters. We set out in our cars to work or ...
Ave Maria: Growing into Total Consecration to Mary
By Sonja Corbitt • Catholic Online • 9/21/2011
In the end, like so many of my devout Catholic brothers and sisters, I found that St. Maximilian Kolbe was right when he exhorted us, "Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did." It is through her that he came into the world, and it ...
'All of Rome became Christian': Deacon Lawrence, Model for New Missionary Age
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 8/10/2011
Roman authorities charged Christians of that era with "odium humani generis" [hatred of the human race]. The Romans claimed to be citizens of a great empire, yet they practiced primitive forms of abortion as well as "exposure", the killing of unwanted newborns. They also tried to institutionalize ...
Fr. Paul Schenck: A Jewish, former Anglican Minister, Catholic Priest on St. Theresa Benedicta
By Fr. Paul C.B. Schenck • Catholic Online • 8/10/2011
Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross was the quintessential example of penetrating intellect, social concern and personal piety. Particularly for my family and me, she is an inspiring example of continuity between Jewish heritage and Christian faith. HARRISBURG, PA. (Catholic Online) - Soon after ...
My Pilgrimage to Ars and Devotion to Saint Jean Vianney - the Curé d'Ars
By Michèle Szekely • Le blog de la Bergerie • 8/4/2011
When I was reading about the Curé d'Ars spending hours in that cramped and stiffly hot confessional, I wanted to bring him a little pillow for his back! But then I remembered how he eschewed comfort. He used to take the mattress out of his bed before going to sleep and he only ate the bare ...
Reflection: Feast of Saints Ann and Joachim, First Holy Family of Nazareth
By Lisa Burke • Catholic Online • 7/27/2011
Catholics, for the most part, are probably pretty familiar with the Feast of the Holy Family that is celebrated on the Sunday after Christmas, a day set aside to honor the Holy Family into which Jesus was born, a family that provides a model for families today, regardless of their specific ...
Blessed Bartolo Longo: The Ex-Satanist On the Path to Sainthood
By Angelo Stagnaro • The Catholic Herald (UK) • 7/19/2011
He consecrated the world, entrusting it to Mary's hands, offering the Blessed Virgin a golden rose. In his homily, Benedict XVI likened Bartolo Longo to St Paul of Tarsus, who also initially persecuted the Church, described Bartolo as being "militantly anticlerical and engaging in spiritualist and ...
Back to the Roots: Examining Maryknoll's Heroic Beginnings
By Brother Andre Marie, M.I.C.M. • Catholicism.org • 6/30/2011
The saintly co-founder of Maryknoll, Father Thomas Fredrick Price, was an apostolic priest, faithful to Catholic orthodoxy, totally consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin, and zealous for the conversion of America and the pagan Orient to the true Church. RICHMOND, NH (Catholicism.org) - In the minds ...
