The Holy Trinity and Jesus as the Way, The Truth and The Life

When Jesus Christ says, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, but through me" is he also pointing us toward an insight concerning the Holy Trinity and our progress in the Christian life and vocation? Here's my reasoning. The Way can, by anaology, be understood as the physical aspect of our being. It's the walk...

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Pope Francis: Suffering difficulties with patience and overcoming oppression with love

(Vatican Radio) “To suffer with patience and to overcome external and internal oppression with love.” That was the prayer of Pope Francis today at the Domus Sanctae Martae during Mass on the feast of Mary Help of Christians.In his homily, Pope Francis requested two graces: “To endure with patience and to overcome with love.” These are “graces proper...

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Pope Francis and the Devil

He refers to him continually. He combats him without respite. He does not believe him to be a myth, but a real person, the most insidious enemy of the Church by Sandro Magister In the preaching of Pope Francis, there is one subject that returns with surprising frequency: the devil.It is a frequency on a par with that with which the same...

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Ohio Priest Dies two days after Ordination

Fr. Scott Carroll of the Diocese of Toledo.    Father Scott R. Carroll, ordained a priest of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, on May 8, died of cancer two days later after battling the disease for some time. Bishop Leonard P. Blair of Toledo ordained the transitional deacon a priest at his parents' home with immediate family members...

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Pope Francis; Things You will be surprised to know about the Pontiff

The first actions of the new pope reviewed in the light of his autobiography. The reasons for his silence on issues that most set the Church against worldly powers: birth, death, family, religious freedom by Sandro Magister Outside of Argentina, very little had been published about Jorge Mario Bergoglio before his election as pope. But ...

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The Spell of Pope Francis

His popularity is to a large extent due to the artfulness with which he speaks. Everything is forgiven him, even when he says things that if said by others would be hammered with criticism. But the first protests are beginning to appear A stir has been made, in the media by the critical remark that Pope Francis reserved for the IOR, the...

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The Prostitute, by GabrielMary Alimba

You send forth your light from your doors Upon me where I lay at thy door steps Drunk and shivering from my nights of prostitution on the brothel floors Thy soothing light has become more pleasant than my corrupt eye accepts Is that you that I see? My ring I lost to those lords who tore my wedding garments My...

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Why Pope Francis Doesn't Give Communion

Because, he says, unrepentant public sinners could slip in among the faithful, and he does not want to back up their hypocrisy. The case of Catholic politicians who support abortion There is one particular in the Masses celebrated by Pope Francis that raises questions that have so far gone unanswered.At the moment of communion, pope Jorge Mario...

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Christians Fleeing Muslim Nations with Fall of Dictatorships, Rise of New Ones

Following the Arab spring, with dictatorships falling away in much of the Arab world, waves of sectarian violence have targeted Christian populations. Millions of the Christian faithful in largely Muslim lands are being uprooted and displaced, under misinterpretation of Islamic law to "drive away the infidels." LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online)...

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Are only Catholics admitted into Heaven?

* This is an answer to our post in our facebook page. The very great sin of man after the original fall is to impose what should had been according to his desire, to a selected few to that extent, and not what had been desired by all from the beginning of the great teaching. Written by Bob Stanley  January 2,, 2012  Galatians...

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Truthful and Thoughtful Replies to False Charges...

So many false charges are made against the Catholic Church by people who refuse to go to the source of Catholic teaching, to find out what the Church really teaches. They instead prefer to propagate the lie they are taught by others of the same mind set. If you wanted to buy a Ford, would you go to a Chevy dealer to find the "truth" about Fords?...

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