Acknowledgement DeMarco, Donald. The Virtue of Integrity. Lay Witness (October 1999). Reprinted with permission of Lay Witness magazine. Lay Witness is the flagship publication of Catholics United for ...

Given this understanding, we can add some specifics. When a priest offers Holy Mass, he has three intentions: First, to offer the Mass reverently and validly in accord with the norms of the Church.

Acknowledgement Edward P. Sri. “Called to Greatness: The Virtue of Magnanimity.” Lay Witness (November/December 2009). This article is reprinted with permission from Lay Witness magazine. Lay Witness ...

The official process for declaring someone a saint is called canonization. Prior to the year 1234, the Church did not have a formal process as such. Usually martyrs and those recognized as holy were ...

The opening number of the section of the family begins with how Sacred Scripture repeatedly underlines the importance and centrality of the family. The book of Genesis narrates the creation of the ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church asserts, “Behind the disobedient voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy. Sacred Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being ...

The Dormition of Mary I tuned to a television station for the Rosary. When the priest reached the 4th decade, “the Assumption,” they showed scenes of a Church in Israel named, “The Sleep of Mary.” The ...

When the world looked at the face of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, it saw pure, simple joy. Then, in 2007, 10 years after Blessed Teresa’s death, a collection of her private letters was published.

St. Paul writes to the Philippians of the glory that our currently lowly bodies will one day enjoy: He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified Body by the power that enables him also ...

Christianity was born when the Roman Empire was at its peak, and it is an appropriate paradox that, as the faith spread throughout the Empire, it both helped to subvert the long Roman hegemony and at ...

His readers are numerous and ever growing, drawn to his scriptural and Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the world, a world that he sees as a created order for which the Creator has appointed us stewards ...

Many Catholics view Freemasonry as a dangerous — even Satanic — conspiracy founded to destroy the Faith. On the other hand, the Craft likes to present itself as “an ancient Order dedicated to the ...