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My fascination with Eastern Catholicism began on Pentecost Sunday 2010 when I first attended Our Lady’s Maronite Catholic Church in Austin, Texas with the Weis Family. At the time, I was teaching […]
Blessed Pope Pius XII in 1946 asked the Bishops of the Catholic Church to gather information for the potential dogmatic declaration of this doctrine. Two questions were asked of the Bishops: First, […]
Today we commemorate the great saint of Auschwitz – Saint Maximilian Kolbe. St. Maximilian Kolbe was born, Raymond, to Julius Kolbe and Mary Dabrowska on January 17, 1894. At the age of […]
The much anticipated CD, Mater Eucharistiae, has been released! This is the first album from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. In conjunction with De Montfort Music and Decca Records, […]
This week in the Catholic Church we celebrate a major solemnity in the liturgical calendar. For Catholics, it’s a Holy Day of Obligation. In the East, we have the Dormition of the […]
In the year 257, the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered that all Christians as well as Bishops, priests, deacons, and Pope Sixtus II, were to be apprehended and put to death. One year […]
John Paul the Great said often during his papacy that we live in a Culture of Death, where the basic right to life is no longer considered sacred. The only thing this […]
Today we celebrate the memorial of the Hound of the Hounds – Saint Dominic de Guzman. Why is he the Hound of the Hounds? As legend states it, while pregnant with Dominic, […]
Over the past couple of days, I have been watching the video below of Matt Maher sing the song, Lord I Need You, at World Youth Day from a couple of weeks […]
Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up a mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, […]
In Rome, there is a very old tradition that states the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a patrician named John. Patricians were members of the original families from Ancient Rome. During the […]
Although today is the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in the Church’s Roman Liturgical Calendar it’s also the memorial for Saint John Vianney. He is known as the Cure D’Ars, the Priest […]
Continuing with my new project of writing on the Doctors of Church, we turn our gaze to today’s saint, the Patron of Theologians – Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Alphonsus Maria Liguori was born […]
There are many beautiful stories that are starting to come out of last week’s World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro. I imagine as the pilgrims return home to their countries, stories […]
For some reason when I hear Saint Peter Chrysologus’ nickname, “golden-worded”, I automatically think of the 1995 James Bond film, GoldenEye. Maybe it’s because I think of Saint Peter as the preaching […]
I would imagine that many Catholics outside of Brazil, like myself, had never heard of Our Lady of Aparecida before the celebrations this week at World Youth Day in Rio de Janerio. […]
As I watched the Evening Vigil tonight on EWTN with Pope Francis on the Copacabana Beach in Brazil, it brought back fond memories of my own experiences at the two World Youth […]
TOM PERNA 