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  • On February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa was invited to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. President Clinton and his wife Hillary along with Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper were also in attendance. The room got very quiet at spoke about the violence of abortion. But the applause began and became nearly unanimous, with four notable exceptions. Here is the text of her address. ...

    17 September, 2026

  • Bonaventure reflects on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the meaning of the blood and water flowing from the side of Christ crucified (John 19:34), the living water of sacramental grace coming from the loving heart of the Savior. He reflects especially on several lines of Psalm 36, used in the office of the feast : "Your love, Lord, reaches to heaven, your truth to the skies . . . In you is the source of life and in your light we see light."...

    01 June, 2026

  • Gregory the Great comments on the famous passage in Ezekiel 33 in which God calls the prophet to be a watchman for the house of Israel. Saint Gregory reflects on how this applies to himself as bishop of Rome and protests his inadequacy for the great responsibility that has been entrusted to him. Read on Gregory's feast day September 3....

    29 May, 2026

  • The concept of Mary as “Mother of the Church” has been around since the time of the early Church Fathers. As the Virgin Mary is the Mother of Christ, the Head of the Church, so also is she Mother of the Church, his Mystical Body.......

    26 May, 2026

  • What should be our response to teaching of the Magisterium that is not necessarily infallible? Are Catholics free in these cases to dissent from the teaching of the Church? 4th in a series on the Magisterium....

    20 May, 2026

  • February 2 is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord Jesus in the Temple. It is known as Candlemass since it is the day that candles are blessed for use throughout the Church year....

    28 January, 2026

  • John the Baptist pointed out Jesus as the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This title, so prominent in the Mass, illumines the meaning of Christ's passion, recalling the first Passover remembered every year during Holy Week and the Triduum....

    13 January, 2026

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    26 November, 2025

  • The Feast of the Dedication of the St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome on November 9th raises an important question: "why do Roman Catholics and other Christians spend so much money on Church buildings when it is the people who are the true Church and temple of God?"...

    10 November, 2025

  • St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated on March 17 for fifteen hundred years since it is the day that Patrick, the missionary bishop who evangelized Ireland, passed from this world to eternity. This excerpt from his autobiographical work called the Confession makes clear that eternity was what he lived for and what he sought to bring to pagan Ireland -- the Kingdom of God as ushered in by Jesus Christ...

    29 October, 2025

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