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By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - During the 1930s, a Polish nun named Faustina Kowalska received several visions and messages from Jesus. During these private revelations a great emphasis was placed on the Divine Mercy of God. One of the devotions that Jesus revealed to St. Faustina was the “Divine Mercy Chaplet.”

By Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Catholic Exchange - Interior life is the basis of exterior life and of all physical, educational, social, and scientific work. The starting point for every kind of work ought to be the interior life, just as the branch comes forth from the life of the vine itself... And here indeed one has to combine all the truths that create the Christian outlook on work. They must all be experienced by us, not only in relation to their inner depth, but also in relation to the meaning they hold for our work.

CNA/EWTN News - Speaking out on political issues is not only a right, but a duty, for religious leaders, said Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence in a recent interview… “What we try and do is take the Gospel, the basis of our faith, and apply it to the issues of the day.”… “Now, some people will like it, some people won’t like it; some will agree, some will not. I think we have not just a right but the need to be involved in these public conversations.”

By Mark Shea, The Catholic Weekly - Last time, we discussed my old Evangelical church’s attempt to create a Statement of Faith and my inadvertent discovery that we were a club, not a church.  We didn’t have a coherent belief.  We had clubbableness... The temptation to make Christianity a club is nothing new.  Indeed, it is the natural behaviour of any group of friends and Jesus’ group of friends was no exception.