Another reader sent us an interesting letter yesterday from a blogger who was a former nun and currently a nurse with a PhD. It’s been a while since I last receive an email from a reader. These past months, there...
For story pitcher Peter Chermin, his first movie should be biblical in proportion. So he decided to pitch in his idea of Moses journey told in 300 movie-like style to 20th century fox power gods which the latter acquired. For...
When Thérèse Martin was born in 1873, Europe was on the verge of great change. In science there was the Industrial Revolution, which roared through England during the 18th and 19th centuries and initiated the age of technology. In art...
Niall O’Dowd of Irish Central ran an article about the latest survey regarding American Catholics abandoning their faith. His views are based on the Trinity College survey in Hartford CT conducted by the college professors. Read on: A new survey...
St. Thérèse’s Little Way of Nonviolence by John Dear SJ “When I sit in jail thinking of war and peace and the problem of human freedom,” Dorothy Day once wrote, “of jails, drug addiction, prostitution and the apathy of great...
Medjugorje has been the longest apparition claim to date, spanning 3 decades and going into its fourth starting from 1981 up to the present, thus giving skeptics the reason that in Church History, the Mother of God does not appear...
An Irish Catholic bishop has predicted that Pope John Paul II, will most likely have a higher status than sainthood in the Catholic Church. The Bishop of Meath, Most Rev Michael Smith, who was centrally involved in organising the papal...
In actual fact, the best thing that ever happened to me was discovering within me the vocation that is called “Franciscan.” Unlike a lot of other spiritual traditions, the Franciscan tradition can’t be easily described by a set of definitions,...
The images of thousands of Filipinos affected by the recent wrath of Typhoon Ondoy (International name ‘Ketsana’) is now seen globally over the internet as a public service advertisement. Catholic Charities of Australia, which I believe is a sister organization...
An Australian father was angered when his giggly seven year old son came home one day biting back his tears and telling him that he had seen a cat giving birth and a detailed diagram with male and female genitalia...
It’s her first official day as Ambassador of the Philippines to the Holy See. Ambassador Mercedes Arrastia-Tuason. presented Pope Benedict XVI her credentials. Meanwhile, thousand of miles away, her homeland is bracing for super typhoon Parma. This after Typhoon Ketsana...