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The following news story, from Life Site, represents the closing of one chapter and the beginning of the next for the apparently no-longer-embattled community of Carmelite Nuns in Arlington, Texas. Below the opening of the Life Site piece are further … Continue reading → The post Carmelite Nuns in Arlington, Texas, Now Associated with the…
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St. Joseph was born in 1603 at Cupertino, in the diocese of Nardo in the Kingdom of Naples. After spending his childhood and adolescence in simplicity and innocence, he finally joined the Franciscan Friars Minor Conventual. After his ordination to the holy priesthood, he gave himself up entirely to a life of devotion to the…
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, set to bring 368 bishops, priests, religious and laypeople to the Vatican, will begin by asking forgiveness for various sins on behalf of all the baptized. As synod members did before last year’s session, they will spend two days on retreat…
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Once in a saintly passion I cried with desperate grief, “O Lord, my heart is black with guile, Of sinners I am chief.” Then stooped my guardian angel And whispered from behind, “Vanity, my little man, You’re nothing of the … Continue reading → The post Remembering the Angels appeared first on Catholicism.org.
St. Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1098 in the Rhineland region of Germany. From a young age, she experienced visions and spiritual insights, which led her to enter a convent at the age of 15. She eventually became the abbess of her community at Rupertsberg, where she founded a new monastery. Hildegard is renowned…
When perusing user-generated content online, it is easy to go down rabbit holes that are hardly edifying. Sometimes, though, you discover a post revealing a person’s hidden struggle, and it ends up teaching you something about a larger phenomenon. For instance, some of the most enlightening YouTube videos regarding red flags in relationships are about…
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Reading 1 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a Brothers and sisters:As a body is one though it has many parts,and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,so also Christ.For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body,whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,and we were all given to drink of…
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Born at Montepulciano, Italy, October 4, 1542, St. Robert Bellarmine was the third of ten children. His mother, Cinzia Cervini, a niece of Pope Marcellus II, was dedicated to almsgiving, prayer, meditation, fasting, and mortification of the body. Robert entered the newly formed Society of Jesus in 1560 and after his ordination went on to…
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(ACI MENA via CNA/Romy Haber, Souhail Lawand) — On Thursday, Sept. 12, the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate held a grand ceremony in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square to welcome the remains of cardinal and patriarch Gregory Peter XV Agagianian from Rome. His body will … Continue reading → The post Gregory Peter XV, Cardinal Agagianian: Another Incorruptible? appeared first…
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Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household. (Acts 16:31, RSVCE) We have all known extraordinarily devout Catholic families which exhibit marked sanctity and virtue. Consider one such family, the parents of which, Louis and Zélie Martin, are canonized saints, whose five daughters, their only surviving children of nine,…