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St. Catherine of Sienna Calls Each One of Us to Love God Right Where We Are

By • Catholic Online • 4/30/2013

While praying at Peter's tomb, she experienced the great weight of the Church fall on her shoulders, and she offered herself and her suffering as a "victim" for the renewal of the Church. On April 29 of that year, around midday, God called her to Himself. Days before her death, she wrote, "If I ...

Bet you didn't know these 10 things about St. Patrick and Ireland!

By • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013

The most kids know of St. Patrick 's Day is that you must wear green or you'll get a pinch from your friends. Adults see the day as an occasion to celebrate, sometimes with green beer and other assorted alcoholic beverages. However, few really know what they are celebrating or why the holiday is so ...

After the Corned Beef: St. Patrick Challenges Modern Christians to be Missionaries

By • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013

We need to learn a lesson from this great missionary. He saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the faith. Then, he went for the next generation with all his efforts, preaching the Gospel without compromise and ...

The Vision of St. John Bosco and the Papacy of Benedict XVI

By • Catholic Online • 2/2/2013

Does the heroic leadership of Pope Benedict XVI represent one more fulfillment of the prophetic vision of the Saint whose Feast we celebrate? Pope Benedict XVI is steering the Ship through troubled waters, charting a path through those sure pillars of protection and heavenly aid. St. John Bosco, ...

St. Thomas Aquinas is a Model for the New Evangelization

By • Catholic Online • 1/29/2013

St. Thomas knew that all truth finds its source - and its fulfillment - in the One who is Truth Incarnate, Jesus the Christ. In this way, he was a pioneer of a New Evangelization of his own second millennium and a model for our efforts to do the same in the Third. CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - ...

Saint John Neumann Calls us all to Apostolic Charity and Courageous Christianity

By • Catholic Online • 1/5/2013

Apostolic charity refers to living like the first apostles. At the heart of Redemptorist spirituality is Christ's own mission, which was to empty himself, take the form of a servant (Phil. 2:7) and submit to the will of the Father in the work of redemption. Thus, Redemptorists, like the Lord, walk ...

Who are you? John the Baptizer, Basil and Gregory Nazianzen Call Christian Men to Live as Friends

By • Catholic Online • 1/3/2013

Friendship participates in the Love of God from which it derives. Greek, the original language of the New Testament, differentiates between the forms of love.English is limited in that regard. Friendship is a form of love. Those who are Baptized into Christ and choose to live their lives in Him ...

Prophetic Pope Paul VI, a Champion of Human Life, Now Venerable

By • Catholic Online • 12/23/2012

'Servant of God Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, Italian, Supreme Pontiff (1897-1978). This is the beginning of the long awaited path to his possible canonization.' The champion of human life, prophetic Pope Paul VI, is now called Venerable. GLADE PARK, CO (Catholic Online) -- On Wednesday, ...

Feast of St Francis Xavier Calls for New Evangelization Missionaries For the West

By • Catholic Online • 12/3/2012

Our mission field is our own back yard. The West is pre-Christian - not Post-Christian! Rather than waste any more time bemoaning this fact, rather than join the naysayers, it is time to enter into the new missionary age which stretches out before us. All we need is the intimate personal communion ...

Bishops To Vote On Canonical Step For Dorothy Day Canonization

By • United States Conference of Catholic Bishops • 11/10/2012

Day's life was marked by fidelity to the Scriptures, voluntary poverty, the works of mercy and work for peace and justice. She was shot at while working for integration and prayed and fasted for peace at the Second Vatican Council. She died November 29, 1980, at Maryhouse in New York City, where ...

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It would be easy to concentrate on the mystical experiences God gave this saint, rather than on her life. In fact, it would be difficult to do differently, so overwhelming were those gifts from God. The temptation for many modern readers (including the author) would be to see little to identify with in these graces and walk away without seeing more. The other ... continue reading

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