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Long defending the practice, Pope Francis baptizes child of unmarried couple

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 13, 2014

Having long called for the practice, Pope Francis baptized the baby of an unmarried couple in the Sistine Chapel during Baptism of the Lord mass at the Vatican. The unnamed parents and their child took part in the traditional Baptism of the Lord mass with 31 others, commemorating the day St. John baptized Jesus.

Ten Maxims Catholics Need to Know to Change the Culture

By Deal W. Hudson | January 14, 2014

Last week I was asked by a Legatus group in Phoenix to address the issue of how Catholics impact and change the culture. I offered this list of ten "maxims" about political participation, the place where Catholic influence in the culture has needed serious attention for a long time.

A 'BIG' Thank You from Catholic Online for your answer to Pope Francis' call to 'Prayer and Action!'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 13, 2014

Today, we're sending out a great big thank you to everyone who has answered Pope Francis' call to 'Prayer and Action' and gave generously to help end world hunger. We'd now like to give you a status update.

Maureen Adams on Confronting Tyranny: He Will Lead Us Now

By Maureen Adams | January 14, 2014

History records that Patrick Henry did not hesitate to invoke "God Almighty" that day, or any day. As a matter of fact, there is no record of any Founders avoiding theological allusions or concepts in their writing and their speeches. Of course, they were not envisioning the combined power of the Church and the state as in the Europe left behind. But they did consider faith as an aid to reason, to citizenship, an encouragement of virtue, and the cultivation of wisdom. They viewed the Christian faith as under-girding and infusing the state - and it worked - at least until now.

Discipleship: Following Jesus Christ in the Ordinary Time of Life

By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 14, 2014

Ordinary time presents us with an opportunity to consider again the fact that living as a Christian calls us to meet the Lord in the real stuff of daily life. He is already there, walking before us and beckoning us to follow after Him. After weeks of preparing for -and then celebrating the Christmas season - all the decorations have come down in our homes and our church sanctuaries. The patterns of daily life now unfold before us and invite us to find the Lord in them.

Deal W. Hudson: Thinking About the Criticism of My Article on Catholic Kitsch

By Deal W. Hudson | January 13, 2014

But as St. Paul writes, "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child" (1 Cor 11:13.) The reader may think this too harsh, but I would ask why the religious images that helped us learn our faith as a child should not give way to different images as we grow older, just as comic books and TV cartoons give way to more challenging media.

Exclusive: Christine Sacchi on Catholic Home Schooling for the Rest of Us

By Christine Sacchi | January 14, 2014

There's a downside to seminars and lectures by accomplished and prominent home schooling figures. On the one hand I looked up to Laura Berquist, Mary Kay Clark, Miki Hill, Mary Hasson, and Kimberly Hahn, to name a few. These ladies were better than rock stars to me. They pointed the way to successful academics, healthy spirituality, and happy, holy family life. They also burdened me with crushing anxiety as to how I was ever going to live up to such sterling examples.

The Theophany or Baptism of the Lord: Why Was Jesus Baptized? What Does it Mean?

By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 13, 2014

The Christian vocation, no matter what our state in life, job, or specific response to God\'s call, is to reveal the Love of the Trinity to the entire human race, to bring them to the Waters of Baptism in order to encounter the Lord and experience New Life and be incorporated into the new humanity of the Church, which is the Body of Christ. There, joined in Him and with one another, we are called to participate in His ongoing redemptive mission until He returns to make all things new. We are invited on this Feast to grasp ever more deeply the heart of the Christian life and to choose to live our lives in the Lord, by living in the heart of the Church for the sake of the world.

Pope Francis makes special plea, but will Catholics really listen?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 9, 2014

Pope Francis continues to call for aid to the poor as the holiday season ends. The Holy Father has set a goal to eradicate global hunger by distributing food more equitably around the world and he has called on all faithful Catholics to help. It's a call that can't be answered by a single second collection at Mass.

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