Day: October 18, 2024

In 1642 the Huron country was in great distress. Harvests were poor, sickness abounded, and clothing was scarce. Quebec was the only source of supplies, and Isaac Jogues was chosen to lead an expedition. It reached its objective safely and started back well supplied with goods for the mission, but the Iroquois, the bitter enemies…

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(Tyler Arnold/CNA) — The Catholic population in Europe fell by nearly half a million people in 2022 but continued to increase in every other part of the world, according to data released by the Vatican this week. According to the … Continue reading → The post Vatican statistics: Catholic population shrinks in Europe, rises everywhere…

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The following is a press release from the Real Presence League… Single largest survey of Catholics ever completed in the United States. Today the Real Presence Coalition (RPC) announced the release of the findings of its survey of U.S. Catholics to the … Continue reading → The post Groundbreaking Survey of U.S. Catholics Reveals Path to Restoring…

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church’s governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on synodality, should not lead to a decentralization of doctrine, said the former chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine. Allowing different bishops’ conferences to teach varying doctrines “would be disastrous,” said Bishop…

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Reading 1 2 Tm 4:10-17b Beloved:Demas, enamored of the present world,deserted me and went to Thessalonica,Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.Luke is the only one with me.Get Mark and bring him with you,for he is helpful to me in the ministry.I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.When you come, bring the cloak I left with…

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There is something distinctly human about sitting around a campfire to share ghost stories. We love a good story, no matter how spooky it might be, and sharing these stories helps us build community and friendship. Perhaps we don’t sit around a campfire as much as we used to, and certainly less often than I’d…

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The Apostle to the Gentiles, St. Paul, suffered through beatings, imprisonment, rejection, and persecution throughout his ministry, but what must certainly have hurt him most was being abandoned by the people he once called friends. And it’s not just that these former friends didn’t stand by him for support; they left him in favor of…

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