Personal encouragement and Eucharistic adoration are crucial in fostering vocations to the priesthood, according to data from a newly released report.
On April 15, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University released the 2024 "Survey of Ordinands to the
Writer Victor M. Palachin offers seven habits of highly peaceful people. To have inner peace on earth simply means increasing attitudes and actions that bring calm and tranquility while reducing those that generate disorder and chaos.
The Servant of God Bartolomé de Las Casas was once a priest who owned slaves. While writing a homily for Pentecost, he was influenced by a verse from Sirach. He became thoroughly convinced of the humanity of native people, renounced his claim
The Fifth Commandment is “Thou shall not kill.” There is a positive reverse to this commandment to not kill and it makes the Fifth Commandment a lot more challenging. It also draws up deeper into the life of Christ. He writes, “The
D.D. Emmons explores the practice of offering Communion under both species. The distribution of Communion must be carefully discerned, reverently conducted, and even the potential for abuse, especially mishandling the Precious Blood, avoided. Further, the faithful should be well informed that Christ
In the last of a 12-part series on the life of Christ, Russell Shaw covers the Last Supper discourse, the seizure of Jesus and his trial, his crucifixion, death, Resurrection and Ascension. He summarizes: “The Gospels give relatively brief accounts of the
It’s been a tough spring for us Catholic members of the senior (citizen) class of 2020, but Bill Dodds writes that God still has work for seniors right here, right now. You’re not helpless. In fact, your help is needed. How powerful
D.D. Emmons explores the life of St. Anthony and how this Bible scholar and teacher’s life reflected the mission of the Church to worship God, evangelize and care for the poor. Known as a great preacher, St. Anthony left the Church a
In the fifth of a 10-part series on the Ten Commandments, Leonard J. DeLorenzo explores the Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and your mother. There is an order to charity — to loving our neighbor. This order depends on the love of
Renée Darline Roden writes about a recent painful experience of recovery from a torn hip labrum injury. She writes, “Health can be regained even when our bodies deviate from the ‘norm.’ In fact, there is no norm. When we heal, we do
In an essay ahead of Mother’s Day, writer Lara Patangan writes that when her children were young, the mistakes she was making as a mother would weigh her down. As they grew older, and she grew wiser, she came to understand that