Catholic Church

By David Condell, First Things Don’t be afraid; and never yield to hate, whilst knowing love, appearing so pristine, contrasted to a thing as desolate as death, that faker some men think supreme, as if it were the arbiter of time.

By Archbishop Aquila, Denver Catholic - “Holiness is the most attractive face of the Church,” Pope Francis says in his new apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate. How true that is! Think, for example, how Mother Teresa drew people all over the world to her ministry because of her holy love for the sick and dying.

By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, CERC - We are summoned to begin the journey inward and upward, toward the hidden, true reality, and we must find that it is reality.  We can only have faith in the Risen One if we have encountered him.  We can only encounter him by following him. 

Fr. Victor Feltes, Blog - Christ’s Church is meant to be gathered around Mother Mary. Before his Ascension, Jesus told the first Christians to “stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” And so, “when the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together” beside Mary his Mother and the reconstituted Twelve Apostles in the room where the First Eucharist was celebrated. ....