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Pope Francis Teaches On The Spiritual Gift of Understanding

By Pope Francis | May 1, 2014

So it is clear that the gift of understanding is closely related to faith. When the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts and enlighten our minds, it makes us grow day by day in the understanding of what the Lord has said and done. Jesus himself said to his disciples: I will send the Holy Spirit and he will make you understand all that I have taught you. Understanding the teachings of Jesus, to understand His Word, to understand the Gospel, to understand God\'s Word.

In India, Kianna tries to make it through another day - Part 1

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 2, 2014

Kianna awakes from her bed of cardboard and filthy quilts. Its morning in the New Delhi slum she shares with her mother, Ayana and her two brothers. It's been a long time since she's seen her father, who says he went to look for work in rice paddies in the country. She doesn't expect to see him ever again, as she struggles to make it through another day.

Deal W. Hudson: Why I Rejected Spirituality

By Deal W. Hudson | May 1, 2014

After I became a Catholic in the early 80s, while teaching philosophy at a Southern Baptist college in Atlanta, my attitude towards defending the faith slowly, and unconsciously, changed. When I started using the word spirituality in my writing and teaching, a smile would come to my lips as I remembered that day in Dr. Evan's garden. What had happened to me? What had changed in my mind and heart allowing me to talk about spirituality without cringing? Quite a bit, as it turns out, and that period of change has not yet ended as I look towards my 65th birthday and over 30 years as a Catholic. The change can be described simply, though its ramifications cannot, as a disposition to recognize similarity where I once noticed only difference. Where I had once praised what was specifically and recognizably Christian, I became eager to notice any place, and in any person, evidence of spiritual expression of our common journey.

The Feast of St Joseph the Worker and Recovering the Value of Human Work

By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 1, 2014

The Church rightly proclaims that the path to true freedom and flourishing is the Way of Jesus Christ.She also affirms that there is a dignity to all human work precisely because of the dignity of every human worker who is engaged in it. That worker is created in the Image and Likeness of God. That dignity was elevated to an even greater height through the Incarnation of Jesus, the Worker of Nazareth. On this Feast of St. Joseph the Worker we should reflect upon the creative and redemptive value of all human work, especially when joined to Christ the Worker.

Fr Dwight Longenecker on Tinkerbell Catholicism

By Fr Dwight Longenecker | May 1, 2014

When Catholics fall into the ways of the world and pick and choose what elements of the church they think is true and reject other parts they really, in a profound way, cease to be Catholics because by doing so they are saying, "This is not a revealed religion. This is, after all, simply a man made rule of a man made institution. I can therefore do what I like." What the Catholic Church needs now more than ever are good, solid, supernaturally inspired, joyful, dynamic and energetic Catholics. What we need are Catholics who are empowered by the supernatural vision of the Church of Christ alive in the world as an objective reality--not something that exists - only if you happen to like it.

Will a Catholic Way of Being Green be the Focus of a New Papal Encyclical Letter?

By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 1, 2014

The Catholic Church has been green for a lot longer than any modern environmental movement. We are called to what I call a relational environmentalism; one of stewardship with the earth which God has made and entrusted to us to care for and to share. For those eager to understand Catholic teaching on this vital topic, we should always begin with scripture and tradition. We have a wellspring of teaching in the Church on our relationship to the gift of God's creation and our responsibility to receive it, protect it and share it. The concern I have about some of the arguments concerning global warming or climate change is that they promote one more charged right vs. left political food fight. Sadly, they too often use sometimes conflicting scientific data as fodder for the fight. We are not first political conservatives or liberals, we are first, last and all in between, Catholic.

50 MILLION DEAD: Modern scientists look at 1918 flu pandemic with fresh clues

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | April 29, 2014

The Grim Reaper was not done with humanity in 1918, as the First World War drew to a close. A flu pandemic broke out, and many young men - having survived the horrors of trench warfare, succumbed to the deadly virus, which left 50 million people dead. Epidemiologists have found the spread of this disease to be one of medicine's great unsolved mysteries - but recent research may now have a cogent reason as to why.

You already carry the Mark of the Beast. Don't believe? You will soon...

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | April 28, 2014

Doomsayers like to predict that we will all be forced to wear the "Mark of the Beast" someday in order to do business, but the fact is that we already carry it with us wherever we go, a mark we have willingly accepted for ourselves. Worse yet, how others are already using this technology is nothing short of chilling.

IT'S NOT SAFE: Forty percent of Kenyan hospital beds occupied by survivors of botched abortions

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | April 28, 2014

A new report by Daily Nation claims that 40 percent of people in Kenyan hospital beds are women recovering from botched abortions, their lives imperiled by the procedures which can range from the clinical to the rudimentary. Far from being an argument in favor of clinical abortion, the crisis proves that a new, moral solution be implemented.

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