Catholic Stand – Page 218 – Living the Truth the Church Teaches

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Holy Week: Monday- No Turning Back

Mark C. McCann March 26, AD2018 1 Comment

No turning back is a devotional focusing on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus. And when he drew near and saw the city he wept

Passover: Seder Meals Are Not Catholic Practice

Birgit Jones March 25, AD2018 32 Comments

During a past Lent, I shared a seemingly innocuous and informative post about the Jewish practice of Seder during Passover. The resulting confusion and charges

Deaconesses, Never Deacons, Never Priestesses

Guy McClung March 25, AD2018 25 Comments

Some revolutionaries, who want the Church to attempt to confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders on women, point to this verse from St. Paul’s Epistle

A Modern Pandora’s Box: Amoris Laetitia II

Tom Collingwood March 24, AD2018 2 Comments

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of

Making Sense of Pope Francis—Philip Lawler on the Patrick Coffin Show

Patrick Coffin March 24, AD2018 3 Comments

Pope Francis I keep having the same exchange with my seriously Catholic friends whenever Pope Francis comes up in conversation. It goes something like this:

Our Frail Love is Surcharged With Christ’s Mystical Love

David Torkington March 23, AD2018 1 Comment

The local Charismatic group were celebrating forty years since their foundation and were preparing a special Mass for that purpose. The readings, the psalms, and

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Self-Help, Self-Diagnose, the Bible and the Church

Brandon Schild March 23, AD2018 1 Comment

” this spiritual worldliness lurks behind a fascination with social and political gain, or pride in their ability to manage practical affairs, or an obsession

The Canaanite Woman: Was Jesus Prejudiced?

Nicholas LaBanca March 22, AD2018 5 Comments

If you were fortunate enough to attend daily Mass during Ordinary Time in February, then you were able to get a pretty nice look at

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Why Have We Turned Away from Beauty?

Janet Meyer March 22, AD2018 9 Comments

My daughter gave me a CD for Christmas called Alma Mater: Featuring the Voice of Pope Benedict XVI. The first time I played it, I ended

Learning Wisdom From The Simplicity of Children

Alyssa Morrisroe March 21, AD2018 1 Comment

Our Catholic faith allows us to benefit from incredible resources in terms of literature and spiritual thought – on the Bible, on the liturgy, on

Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited and the Chitchat Apostolate

Patrick Malone March 21, AD2018 2 Comments

Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited, a novel in dramatic form, revolves around a conversation between two men, Black and White, about the existence of

When it comes to Politics Catholics should all be ‘Independents’

Steffani Jacobs March 20, AD2018 47 Comments

In today’s ideologically charged and politically polarized society terms like GOP Catholics, conservative Catholics, Catholic Democrats, and liberal Catholics are getting thrown around way too

L’Arche Communities Bring the Differently-Abled Together

Laura DeMaria March 20, AD2018 1 Comment

In 1964 a young man named Jean Vanier visited an asylum for the disabled at the invitation of a priest friend, who was a chaplain

Christ’s Admonishing of the Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew

Paul Kniaz March 19, AD2018 8 Comments

This Lent we have already read some harsh condemnation of the Pharisees in the gospel. One of the more recent ones was Matthew 23:1-12. This

Here’s What I Learned from Fasting

Fionn Shiner March 19, AD2018 5 Comments

Just over a year ago I was still living a life of hedonism, iniquity and the nihilistic, numbing pursuit of pleasure. But I was saved

Frassati, Gonzaga, and the True Nature of Rebellion

Cameron Edman March 18, AD2018 2 Comments

It’s no secret that young people are abandoning the church. The reasons behind the rebellion and abandonment are complex. No one seems to have a

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The Real Meaning of Lenten Penance

Christian Daru March 18, AD2018 2 Comments

We Catholics are familiar with Lent as a time of fasting and penance. We are told every year that during this time we ought to

Irish Catholic Weights & Measure

Daniel Demers March 17, AD2018 No Comments

“He will fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting” (Job 8:21). Today is St. Patrick’s Day. A day of joy and celebration

Phil Lawler on Off the Shelf at Breadbox Media

Pete Socks March 17, AD2018 1 Comment

Philip Lawler is the editor of Catholic World News and is one of America’s most incisive Catholic journalists and commentators. A graduate of Harvard College

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Overcoming Anxiety and Worry in a Darkening World

Ray Sullivan March 16, AD2018 3 Comments

As the world gets darker and becomes more evil with its headlong embrace of abortion, pornography, homosexuality, adultery, atheism, worldliness, euthanasia, divorce and remarriage, lack