View from the Ambo/Mercy With Teeth

The Instistute for Religious life has just released a new webpage - check out their   Home  Page!

As he has in the past, the Cardinal who is head of the Congregation of the Clergy, has released a letter addressed to seminarians .

The Season of Lent is a season of self-denial and penance, when we, like Jesus Christ enter the desert of fasting and prayer. What will we...

THe Multiplication of the Loaves is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels. It contains a great power - it reveals that Jesus Chris...

The Congregation for Catholic Education release a document entitled Pastoral Guidelines for Fostering Vocations to Priestly Ministry .

We are finally live with the new Website for Vocations! Check it out !!!

Jesus heals Simon Peter's mother-in-law , but knows that he came to preach in more toms that just Capernaum. He tells them that they mu...

I have posted the newest volume of the Vocations View Newsletter. Click to go to the page, or Right click to download!

John the Baptist cries out for the people to be prepared for the coming of the Messiah. He knows where he stands - that he is not worthy t...

I want to highlight a great website for those discerning a vocation titled Vocation Boom . It provides Resources, encouragement, mentors a...

Marriage, as a vocation , is under attack. Achbishop Sheehan of Sante Fe has released a beautifully written document on the three forms of ...

The Sermon on the Mount, especially the Beatitudes, form the core of what it means to follow Christ. It is in poverty of spirit that we re...

The Child Jesus is revealed as King of kings, and is worshipped by the wise men . Just as they did, we are to look for the signs of Christ...

I have to admit I am continually surprised, though I know that I should not be, by certain people's malformed conscience that take certa...

Jesus Christ is our eternal priest and universal king , and the time is coming when He will submit His kingdom to our Heavenly Father. When...

In our Gospel this weekend , Jesus Christ explains that marriage is a earthly institution, that people marry here, but in Heaven it will not...

Humility marks the life of a follower of Christ . It takes humility to admit we are sinners in need of a savior, in the first place. The L...

I hesitate to say something about the recent scandals that some are using to implicate and tarnish His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The hist...

In a post Ignatius Insight: The Blessed Virgin Mary's Role in the Celibate Priest's Spousal and Paternal Love , the author Carl Olso...

The Congregation for the Clergy released a Letter from Cardinal Hummes regarding The Year of Priesthood . The Year of Priesthood Dear Pries...