Catholic Church

By Maura Roan McKeegan, Catholic Exchange - Sarah believed in God but had no formal religion and no knowledge of the redemptive value of suffering. For half an hour, she told Sr. Maria about the darkness and sadness that was overtaking her life… Then, unexpectedly, Sarah asked, “What religion is it that has the Sacred Heart? Who is it that believes in the Sacred Heart of Jesus?”… Sr. Maria told her that it was a Catholic devotion…

By Marcel LeJeune, Catholic Missionary Disciples - We all need to remember that Jesus understands the problems of this world much better than we ever will. The fact is, Jesus taught us, through his life, the strategies we need to be living out, in order to fulfill his command to “go and make disciples of all nations”. It is the foundation of renewal that can fix all of our problems. But the vast majority of Catholic dioceses and parishes don’t operate through all the strategies Jesus taught us.

By Michele Chronister, Catholic Exchange - St. Alphonsus Liguori was an eighteenth-century priest and founder of the Redemptorist order. However, especially at the end of his life, he suffered terribly from scrupulosity. Needless to say, the scrupulosity did not prevent him from becoming a saint. In fact, it became a part of the cross he bore, that made him a saint.