“Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians. Again and again I have thought of going round the universities of Europe, especially Paris, and everywhere crying out like a madman, riveting the attention of those with more learning than charity: ‘What a tragedy: how [...]
“History has shown that, when the Church becomes less worldly, her missionary witness shines more brightly. Once liberated from material and political burdens and privileges, the Church can reach out more effectively and in a truly Christian way to the whole world.” (Pope Benedict XVI) Print this entry
I gave a talk one Sunday morning to the men’s club of a large Atlanta Methodist church at the request of an old friend. When he asked me to speak to this group months before the talk, I responded with a question which I would ask him repeatedly every time we got together: “They know [...]
I just completed on of the most extraordinary weeks of my life… I spent 8 days over in Madrid… Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s report of his experience at World Youth Day. Father Barron can be found on the Internet at: Word On Fire CATHOLICISM Print this entry
“The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example….Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ’s universal call to holiness.” (Archbishop John Foley) Print this entry
I have the amazing privilege of taking a master’s course this week at the Augustine Institute from one of the most joyful proclaimers of the Gospel I have ever heard. As I sit in Dr. Mary Healy’s class on the Acts of the Apostles and the New Evangelization, I am wonderfully astounded by the way [...]
“I have cancer.” Steven and I were pouring ourselves a coffee during a break at work over a year ago when he told me his news. The words chilled the air of an already cold winter day and broke the silence of the morning routine. The calm with which he told me about his cancer, [...]
David was 17 years old the summer he started working in the plastics factory, which was owned by his uncle. He took this job in between his junior and senior years of high school hoping to maximize earnings for college, which was just a year away. He also hoped that he would learn something about business. [...]
For the past few decades, the popes have been trying to inspire Catholics to take up their role in the re-evangelization of areas where the Church was once strong but where now the vast majority of baptized Catholics do not practice the faith with fervor or even at all. In most of the Catholic countries [...]
Some weeks ago, I gave a sermon in which I mentioned Keith Richards, the lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones. I recounted how struck I was by a passage from Richards’s autobiography in which the guitarist described the almost maniacal dedication with which he and his bandmates set out to learn Chicago blues. “Benedictines,” he [...]
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Daily Catholic Quote from St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
“I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.” (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin and Foundress) Please help us in our mission to assist readers to integrate their Catholic faith, family and work. Tell your family and friends [...]
St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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