Interview: On Lourdes and St. Bernadette
Zenit News Agency
9/9/2008, by Karna Swanson
Elizabeth Ficocelli, author of "Lourdes: Font of Faith, Hope and Charity" is interviewed on the Pilgrimage site and the life of St. Bernadette. COLUMBUS, Ohio (Zenit) - The world today could learn a lot from visionary Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes, said the author of a new book on the Marian ...
Honoring Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Catholic Online
9/5/2008
Let us praise the Lord for this diminutive woman in love with God, a humble Gospel messenger and a tireless benefactor of humanity. In her we honor one of the most important figures of our time. Let us welcome her message and follow her example. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - On this day, ...
Pope Encourages Study and Imitation of the Saints
Zenit News Agency
8/21/2008
The Pontiff recalled how Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote that the saints are the most important Gospel commentary and represent for us "a real path of access to Jesus." CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (Zenit) - Benedict XVI says it is important and advantageous to cultivate devotion to the saints, and ...
Sister Faustina's Confessor to Be Beatified
Zenit News Agency
8/21/2008
Polish Father Michal Sopocko, Sister Faustina Kowalska's confessor and spiritual director, and principal promoter of the revelations the nun received on Divine Mercy, will be beatified Sept. 28 in Poland. ROME (Zenit) - Sister Faustina's confessor and St. Thérèse's parents are among the six who ...
Living in a 'Mary Moment'
Catholic Online
8/15/2008
Mary is a model of true humility and a needed antidote to an age of arrogance. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - Several years ago I was an invited guest at a celebration of the life and ministry of a significant evangelical Protestant leader.
It was a “black tie” affair, accompanied with all ...
Mary's Choice: Surrender to Love
Catholic Online
8/15/2008, by Deacon Keith Fournier
She was the first evangelizer and the first disciple of her own Son Jesus. She gave the first Gospel testimony to her cousin, Elizabeth, without words. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - There are very few records of Mary’s explicit words in the texts of the New Testament of the Bible. ...
Mary’s Prayer: A Way of Holiness
Catholic Online
8/15/2008, by Deacon Keith Fournier
We are called to respond to His invitation, to say “Yes” to a relationship with Him. This is what Mary’s Fiat is all about. In saying Yes to God, as Mary did, we are able to discover the path to conversion, to holiness, to authentic spirituality. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - “I am the ...
The Assumption: The Loveliest of Feasts
The Catholic Herald (UK)
8/15/2008, by Revd Dr Peter Mullen
Rationalists deride the doctrine of the Assumption, says Fr. Peter Mullen. But we should proclaim it boldly. LONDON (The Catholic Herald) - GK Chesterton said: "I love my religion and I love especially those parts of it which are generally held to be most superstitious."
Many suspect that the ...
Church Probes ‘Miracles’ of British Nun
The Catholic Herald (UK)
8/4/2008, by Simon Caldwell
Sister Elizabeth has been compared to a Victorian Mother Teresa because of her work among poor mill workers and refugees from the Irish potato famine, although she was derided in her own lifetime as a "revolutionary". LONDON (Catholic Herald) - The unexplained healings of two people from terminal ...
St. Catherine of Sienna
Catholic Online
8/1/2008, by Deacon Keith A. Fournier
“Eternal Trinity, Godhead, mystery deep as the sea, you could give me no greater gift than the gift of yourself. For you are a fire ever burning and never consume, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.”
St. Catherine of Sienna Born in 1347, Catherine Benincasa was the ...
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