Category: Today’s Catholic
Daily Catholic Quote from St. John of the Cross
“Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.” (St. John of the Cross) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, family and work. Tell your family and friends about this article using both the Share and the Recommend buttons below and via [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from the United States Catholic Bishops on Economic Justice
“Holiness is not limited to the sanctuary or to moments of private prayer; it is a call to direct our whole heart and life toward God and according to God’s plan for this world. For the laity holiness is achieved in the midst of the world, in family, in community, in friendships, in work, in [...]
Whose Rights? The Paradox of Moral Relativism
Whose rights are protected in a relativistic culture? It is precisely on this point that relativistic societies face a serious dilemma: How does a community arbitrate various individuals’ competing interests? There is much rhetoric in our modern world about protecting human rights and every individual’s freedom, but what if one person or group wants to [...]
From Scotland to Rome – A Story of Conversion
It was 11:45 in the evening and I couldn’t sleep. I was anxious about a phone conversation I overheard my wife having with her mother about Catholicism and my patience for this divisive topic had run out. My mother-in-law was asking my wife how she would feel about not receiving the Eucharist at her sister’s [...]
Seven Lessons Fathers Should Teach Their Children
Who Introduced You to the Lord? The first question I would like to pose, is simply this: “How did you come by your faith, whether it be weak or strong, new or old? Where and when did you first come to encounter Jesus and his glorious Gospel?” For many of us, the answer would be, [...]
The New Evangelization: Not a Strategy or Program, but a Person – Part 1
“God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully prepared for the sowing of the Gospel. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new evangelization and to the mission ad gentes. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from Fr. Francis Fernandez
“Normally Our Lord asks us to give a Christian witness through our ordinary lives, engaged in the same ways of earning a living, tackling the same concerns as other folk. We have to act in such a way that others will be able to say, when they meet us: This man is a Christian, because [...]
Counting Them All
When people ask me how many children we have I answer nine. It’s true of course. My husband and I have nine living children. Well, some of my children are actually grown ups but you know what I mean- we have nine offspring walking the face of this earth. This is what these people want [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Anthony of Padua
“If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!” (St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, family and work. Tell your family and friends about this article using both the [...]
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church
“In former times, Christians were incited to renounce Christ; now they are taught to deny Christ. Then they were forced, now they are taught; then violence was used, now it is deception; then one heard the shouts of the Enemy; now, when he prowls around, gentle and insinuating, it is difficult to recognize him. [...]
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