Catholic Church

By The Carmelite Sisters, Spiritual Direction - Every year on July 16th, Carmelites throughout the world celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite Order... Oral tradition tells of St. Simon Stock praying with a passionate intensity to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel during a time of great distress and hardship for the Order. With fervor and faith, he prayed for the first time the Flos Carmeli prayer which he wrote. And Our Lady answered that prayer. ...

By Joe Ruff,  The Catholic Spirit (Complicit Clergy) - Cynthia Bailey Manns, one of the original members of the Lay Advisory Board that advises Archbishop Bernard Hebda and adult learning director at St. Joan of Arc in Minneapolis, is one of 10 non-bishop voting delegates chosen by Pope Francis to represent the North American region at the first general assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality in October. The delegates were announced July 7 at a Vatican news conference.

By Church Militant - Abp. Víctor Fernández will rewrite catechism, reinterpret Bible... Church Militant's Rome correspondent, Dr. Jules Gomes, discusses how the Vatican's incoming doctrinal watchdog will sideline Sacred Scripture and Church teaching just to bless gay couples.

By Paul Kengor, American Spectator - Catherine Labouré was a nun who lived in 19th-century Paris. She was born on May 2, 1806, the ninth of 11 children in a farming family in the village of Fain-lès-Moutiers. Her mother died when Catherine was 9, and the little girl thereafter committed herself to the Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, as her protector. Her father and brothers attempted to marry her off, including with two marriage proposals, but Catherine deeply desired religious life. She eventually entered the Daughters of Charity convent at Rue du Bac in Paris.