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St Patrick's Day

St Patrick is one of the most popular and well know saints, at least in the United States. His feast day is celebrated in almost every city in America, with parades, dinners, and drunken festivities. He's celebrated by not only the Irish diaspora, and not only by Catholics, but by just about every g... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Teen Books Helps Parents, Teachers Find Good Books for Catholic Teens

Steering teens toward entertaining yet edifying media is a challenge. In the case of movies and television programming, ratings can offer some indication of content. In the case of books, consumer reviews on retail sites offer some information... (www.catholic365.com)

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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

In the Gospel reading, in similar fashion, Jesus castigates the people for their hardness of heart and unwillingness to see and to listen to his message.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Cracks and Lent

Right now, we're in the midst of Lent; a time to fix what is broken in our lives, in our relationship with God and maybe even with other people. And I got to thinking about something while walking around the other day and seeing cracks.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The mythical story is as old as the messages on my answering machine, but it’s worth retelling. It has to do with a frustrated hiker who approached a chasm he couldn’t cross. He saw a daredevil acrobat crossing it on a tightrope above hundreds of feet of empty space while pushing a woman in a wheelb... (www.catholic365.com)

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Driving IT Home: Educating Your Children

Our unsurpassed and all-defining identity, mission and purpose on this planet: Image the Trinity. Marriage and family are iconic of the Trinity. In our capacity to love, we literally participate in the life of the Trinity. We are called, literally, to make God, who is Love, known... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Door - Short Story

The young man sat staring into a bright blue sky with only birds’ singing penetrating his hearing. Thoughts of an easy life, big cars, money, and prestige-lots of prestige kept entering his mind.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Stretching Beyond Our Limits? Catholics and Yoga

If you ever want to understand what it was like for St. Paul when he was preaching to the Corinthians about the dangers of meat sacrificed to idols, then you should try convincing another Christian not to practice yoga. Convincing people of the serious threat that yoga poses is often very difficult... (www.catholic365.com)

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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

When we look at the Our Father in the context of Saint Matthew’s gospel account, it’s striking that the first topic that Jesus discusses after ‘handing over’ this prayer to His disciples is the forgiveness of sins. This is not surprising, but it is striking.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Called To The Mystery Of Intercessory Prayer

One night I awoke and felt a deep sadness. As I reflected on where this was coming from, I realized it was from the news items I had read the day before on the number of abortions that have been committed in the past 25 years around the world and the campaign at the U.N. to make abortion on demand a... (www.catholic365.com)

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Persecution and Trust

On the rear of a battered car I saw a “bumper snicker” that managed to combine humor and arrogance: “If you don’t like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.” In spite of its nuance of humor, it trenchantly articulated the “get-out-of-my-way” mentality that underlies much of the crime rampant in ou... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope Saint Felix III

Saint Felix can be said to be the first pope of the Dark Ages. The Western Roman Empire had fallen when the barbarians, under leadership of Odoacer of the Herouli tribe, had overcome the weak Roman emperor. So, starting in 476, the previously highly civilized, organized Italian peninsula was run by ... (www.catholic365.com)

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A Teaching on the Paschal Mystery

Suppose a person questions you about Jesus, His teaching, the meaning of eternal salvation and the Resurrection. Of course, as Catholics our suggestion would be to seek an RCIA program at their parish.... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Carpenter's hands: A meditation for Lent

What do you think about during the Consecration? As odd as it may seem, my mind usually focuses on Jesus’ hands as they break the bread and offer the cup.... (www.catholic365.com)

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"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

We know this story well. the most important word in it is ‘I’. Jesus identifies himself with the people he is talking about.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34. Jesus spoke of forgiveness often. Even as Our Lord was dying on the Cross He spoke of forgiveness, an intercession to the Father for our sinfulness.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pressure and Trust

A few years ago in Virginia an explosion occurred in a most unusual location for such an incident: in a garbage truck! Nearby office buildings were evacuated and two firefighters hospitalized due to the release of a poisonous gas... (www.catholic365.com)

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Deacon Roger & Helena Cartier--A Catholic Love Story for Us All to Honor

St. John Paul II said, “Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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The Transfiguration: A Prelude to the Resurrection

“He took Peter, James and John and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; His face shone like the sun and His clothes became as white as light.” Mt. 17: 1-2. No other event in all of the Bible displayed such drama and excitement as did this superb vision ... (www.catholic365.com)

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Catholic Triumphalism?

Similar to the previous article (Answers to a Non-Catholic) this one will draw up a reply that I made to a responder to the same article on the Facebook group “Catholic Fundamentalism”. This person, whom I will only identify by his first name, Steven, had previously said, “I paid my dues as a Boome... (www.catholic365.com)

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