Advent & Christmas News
A Layman's Plea for Tolerance of Catholics
By • Catholic Online • 1/1/2013
For all those inclined to revile the Church and what it stands for, practicing Catholics like me have a humble request - attend any mass at any time at any Catholic church in the world. It won't take more than an hour of your time, you won't be asked to convert, and I can promise you that the ...
A Question For The Christmas Season: Do You Want To Become A Saint?
By • Catholic Online • 12/31/2012
Who and what is a saint, and why should anyone want to be one? Is it in any way important to think about the saints? What do their lives mean for our lives? Given the nature of our modern, hyper-energized and technologically advanced world, are they still relevant today? On the other hand, could ...
Every Leader Supporting Abortion is Herod, Every Child Killed a Holy Innocent
By • Catholic Online • 12/30/2012
Every child killed by voluntary abortion is a Holy Innocent. Every leader who supports this killing, implicitly or explicitly, carries on the evil actions of Herod. On this Feast of the Holy Innocents let us summon a new resolve to bring an end to the slaughter of the holy innocents in this ...
Fr. Sly on the Feast of St John in the Octave of Christmas
By • Catholic Online • 12/27/2012
John was included in the inner circle of Christ's followers. He was present for the miracles, healings, the transfiguration and the teaching ministry of Jesus from the beginning. Even at the cross he remained while others fled, standing next to the Mother of God, whose care was entrusted to him by ...
Feast of St. Stephen, Proto-Martyr, Calls us to Reflect on the Gift of Deacons
By • Catholic Online • 12/27/2012
Sadly, some Catholics who see themselves as traditionalists have a problem with those of us ordained to serve as Deacons. I have only one thing to say, adjust. Either the Church made a mistake, or you have. Most of us have much in common with you. We are older men, committed to the Magisterium of ...
Pope St Leo the Great: Christian, Remember Your Dignity
By • Catholic Online • 12/26/2012
Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God's own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of God's ...
Merry Christmas: Love is Born on Christmas Morn and the World is Born Anew
By • Catholic Online • 12/26/2012
On the wonderful day called Christ-Mass, the world pauses at a manger. The great event of the Nativity of the Lord touches every man, woman and child. The world is presented with the Christian proclamation that "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." ORLANDO, FL. (Catholic Online) - The Gospels ...
Welcoming the Birth of the Redeemer in the Womb: Jesus was an Embryonic Person
By • Catholic Online • 12/26/2012
Tomorrow we commemorate the Nativity of the Lord. Let us always remember the incredible truth revealed in the Mystery which we celebrate, there was a Redeemer in the Womb. The Incarnate Word became one of us, at every stage. In fact, Jesus was an "embryonic person", to use the salient phrase ...
Pope Benedict XVI: If God's Light is Extinguished, Man's Divine Dignity is also Extinguished
By • Catholic Online • 12/25/2012
The conversion that we need must truly reach into the depths of our relationship with reality. Let us ask the Lord that we may become vigilant for his presence, that we may hear how softly yet insistently he knocks at the door of our being and willing. Let us ask that we may make room for him ...
Truth Has Arisen from the Earth and Justice has Looked Down from Heaven
By • Catholic Online • 12/25/2012
Truth, then, has arisen from the earth: Christ who said, I am the Truth, was born of the Virgin. And justice looked down from heaven: because believing in this new-born child, man is justified not by himself but by God. ORLANDO, FL (Catholic Online) - Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become ...
