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During Christ’s time teaching here on earth, He used questions to communicate salvation to the world. But even though the questions were originally directed to the disciples over 2,000 years ago, Christ’s questions are also the start of conversations He wants to have with us today. In his book, Answering the Questions of Jesus, Father Andrew […]
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Tommy Tighe is the man behind podcasts The Catholic Hipster Podcast and The Chimney. He’s a bonafide Catholic Hipster and has written a book to help the rest of us up our Catholic cool game – The Catholic Hipster Handbook! What started out as a joke tweet turned into one of the best collections of reasons to
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In his famous book, True Devotion to Mary, Saint Louis Marie de Montfort writes that consecrating our lives to Jesus through Mary is the shortest, easiest, quickest and most efficacious path to Heaven. But if you’re just discovering Marian Consecration, Saint Louis de Montfort’s writing can seem overwhelming. Father Michael Gaitley’s book, 33 Days to Morning Glory:
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Have you regretted a social media post, text, or e-mail? Are you forgetting things that you used to have no problem remembering? When spending time with friends, do you struggle to focus on the other person, your mind wandering in the middle of conversation? Does your smartphone beckon you for just one more quick check
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Most of what we know about demonic activity and possession comes from what is seen in mainstream media – think “The Exorcist”, “Poltergeist” and the like. But there is so much more to learn about the tricks of Satan and his devils than what is shown on the television. Father Gabriele Amorth’s new book, An Exorcist
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Some of us might know the catacombs as the ancient initial burial places for Christians– but they are so much more! Fr. James Spencer Northcote details the catacombs and their uses in his book The Roman Catacombs: A History of the Christian City Beneath Pagan Rome. Here are 7 cool catacomb facts you need to
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True story -the other day I had this conversation with my teenage daughters: While they are quite wrong (especially if you are reading this after September 23rd), people have long been fascinated with the end of the world, death, judgement and what is to come in the final days.
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Once called “the most hidden of the saints,” Saint Joseph led a humble life in Nazareth as the foster father of Jesus. Yet despite his quiet life, the Church named Saint Joseph the patron saint of the Universal Church. In a recently published book, The Truth About Saint Joseph: Encountering the Most Hidden of Saints, Father Maurice Meschler,
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More than two thousand years ago, ordinary Christians were huddled in the Upper Room together. Thanks to the work of the Holy Spirit, those men spread the Gospel message to all corners of the earth. How did they do it? How did they go from simple, ordinary fishermen and tax collectors to the most famous
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Magnificat-Ignatius books are always books I do a happy dance for when they arrive in the mail, because I just know my boys, husband and I are going to love them. Even the ones that aren’t specifically for their age group – they just love them all! Here are the latest five we have added
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My mama used to say, “There is nothing new under the sun.” I thought of that quote as I read quotes from the saints from centuries past in the newly republished, My Daily Visit with the Saints, published by Sophia Institute Press.
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Several years ago a catchphrase came out that is abbreviated WWJD? For those who don’t know it, the phrase is “What Would Jesus Do?” When I first heard it, I thought it was quite corny but I soon found myself using that phrase to help me make choices in life. I have always been a
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Sometimes it can be hard to reconcile our call to evangelization with this world we are currently in- a world full of unbelief and with seemingly no desire to believe. Faith is sometimes seen as a weakness, an opiate to escape from the dark realities of the world; but any real believer knows that this
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Without question, Pope Benedict XVI is an incredible theologian and Catholic mind. In his new book, author James Day examines the writings of Pope Benedict XVI and sheds light on the Pope’s thoughts on topics that we are unfortunately all too familiar with in today’s culture—individualism, materialism, secularism and godlessness. Despite the troubles of today’s
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Paranormal investigators, an alleged Vatican conspiracy, demonic forces and a former priest. It sounds like the makings of a horror film ready to release on Halloween. Or it could be the bare bones of a new documentary on Netflix about Malachi Martin, a former Jesuit turned self-proclaimed exorcist who died from a cerebral hemorrhage at
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The saints are awesome witnesses of holiness and how to walk through the tribulations of this life while remaining close to God, but sometimes it can be difficult to find a way to talk with them daily or to know where to start with them. In his book, My Daily Visit with the Saints, Charles Kenny
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Jesus told us: Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matt. 7:13-14) How do we
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I’ve recently completed a manuscript for an upcoming book on the saints of the Counter-Reformation. In the book I cover the lives and achievements of ten saints, but not strictly as a biographical tome for the reader to learn facts an appreciate a life (though, I definitely want that) but as a practical means of
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If you really look at something that is living, or someone, you will be amazed by the wonder that is life. The movement of nature waking with the sunrise, watching an ant carry a leaf larger than it is, giving birth to a new human and having them bond immediately knowing they are in the arms
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In a monastery chapel in Alabama, a Franciscan sister wrote down her thoughts about living a Catholic life on a legal pad. Those legal pads would eventually become Mother Angelica’s mini-book series, which were originally published by Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in the 1970s. Today, you can explore the sacraments with Mother Angelica as
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