Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

I went to Mass recently. Daily Mass. About 40 people there. A priest and 2 servers. The priest told no jokes, did not even say "good afternoon," obviously clear on what "Greeting" means in the rite. He spoke clearly, was restrained in his demeanor, keeping his own personality in check. He didn’t add a word…

Young Japanese Catholics: Shibata Yoko, 23, from Shizuoka parish, said she came with joy because since high school “no matter how much I thought about it [martyrdom], I could not understand it.” It all began when she read Endo Shusaku’s novel Silence, a story of the persecution of Christians in Japan. “I know that to…

Irish priest defiant: A PRIEST at the centre of a major row has defended his decision to organise a Mass involving three Catholic priests and a Church of Ireland minister on Easter Sunday. Augustinian friar Fr Iggy O’Donovan backed his decision to invite Church of Ireland minister Michael Graham to join him and other Catholic…

In today’s General Audience, Pope Benedict continues his catechesis on Church: “This permanent actualization of the active presence of the Lord Jesus in his people, by the work of the Holy Spirit and expressed in the Church through the apostolic ministry and brotherly communion, is what is meant, in a theological sense, by the term…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners