The Lord’s Prayer — The Our Father

From a letter to Proba by Saint Augustine, bishop (Ep. 130, 11,21-12,22; CSEL 44, 63-64) On the Lord’s Prayer We need to use words so that we may remind ourselves to consider carefully what we are asking, not so that we may think we can instruct the Lord or prevail...

Cardinal Dolan on Reconciliation

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan Synod Intervention Tuesday, October 9, 2012 The great American evangelist, The Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, commented, “The first word of Jesus in the Gospel was ‘come’; the last word of Jesus was ‘go’.” The New Evangelization ...

Why do Catholic Crucifixes have a Corpus?

Did you ever wonder why Catholics use and respect Crucifixes rather than plain crosses. It is NOT because Catholics do not recognize Easter as some badly misinformed preachers have claimed. There can be no Easter without Good Friday, the scarificial death of Jesus on...