View from the Ambo/Mercy With Teeth

Today, July 25, we mark the 50th anniversary of the release of the encyclical Humanae Vitae (July 25, 1968). Too often, this document has b...

This Lent, after much consideration and prayer, I have decided not to offer Communal Penance Services in the Area Faith Community of Apostle...

Some have recently asked about living wills. health care directives, and moral issues around end of life. The Minnesota Catholic Conference...

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

ZENIT - Cardinal Piacenza's Letter to Mothers of Priests and Seminarians : ROME, January 2, 2013 (Zenit.org). Here is a translation of t...

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 !!!

Today, there is the possibility of receiving an indulgence for praying the Actus reparationis . MOST sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity ...

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ reminds us of the absolute centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the Church. ...

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty Kin...

Much has been said about the selection of the writers for this year's Way of the Cross held annually on Good Friday in the Coliseum. Th...

Pope Benedict's Homily for the Mass of the Lord's Supper : Dear Brothers and Sisters! Holy Thursday is not only the day of the insti...

A must read - His Holiness Pope Benedict's Chrism Mass Homily . Dear Brothers and Sisters, At this Holy Mass our thoughts go back to tha...

Jesus enters the desert , a place of testing and desolation. He enters society, prepared for his ministry, proclaiming that the Kingdom of ...

As the Pope's Custom, he offered a Mass for Seminarians at the Cathedral of Santa María la Real de la Almudena - Madrid 20 August 2011 Y...

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

God in His justice requires perfection, but His mercy forgives us for our sins, but only if we forgive others. It is not forgetting or lett...

The Vatican has release a great resource for news at NEWS.VA . From Cathlic Culture's Review of the site: "News.va is a service ...

I love the sequence the Church gives for this feast. Written by St. Thomas Aquinas, it is theologically packed with Scriptural allusions, t...

Come, Holy Spirit , and fill us with your gifts. Bring to their fullness your fruits. Inspire us to follow the Son, and help us discern th...