Catholic Church

March 10, 2018

The Real International Women’s Day is the Feast of the Annunciation

By Joanna Bogle, Catholic Herald - I didn’t celebrate International Women’s Day. Its history is cruel: it was imposed in the old USSR immediately after the 1917 Revolution and for the next decades there were slogans every year on March 8th about the glories of being a woman under socialism, while women died in their millions in the Soviet-imposed famines of the 1930s....

March 10, 2018

5 Ways St. Joseph Can Help Your Lent

By Br. Joseph Martin Hagan, O.P., Catholic Exchange - While Joseph shows us the dignity of work, he had some of his best moments as he slept. It was here that God spoke to him repeatedly through dreams… We can distinguish two types of rest: physical sleep and spiritual abandonment to God… Sleep renews us for another day of work and love… Abandonment increases our hope in God’s loving providence, strengthening our faith in times of trials and creating room for love to grow.

March 9, 2018

By Msgr. Charles Pope: The Cardinal Virtues: Justice

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The cardinal virtue of justice enables us to render to others what is due to them on a consistent basis. Justice seeks to observe the rights of all. While it is sometimes easy render to others what is their due, at other times it is difficult; these are the situations in which justice shows itself as residing in the will. In particular, justice seeks the good of others.

March 9, 2018

Dick Durbin: America is About ‘Flag, Family, God’—and Late-Term Abortion

By CNSNews.com Staff - Sen. Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) said in a speech on the Senate floor yesterday that he believes American culture is about “flag, family, God.” This comes just five weeks after he voted against cloture on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, thus helping to block a final Senate vote on a bill that would have prohibited aborting a baby after 20 weeks into pregnancy.