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Headlines German priest with daughter calls upon Pope Francis to release him from his vow of celibacy By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 4, 2014 Coming forward on a German TV talk show that he fathered a daughter out of wedlock, a Catholic priest has written a letter asking Pope Francis to release him from his vow of celibacy. Stefan Hartmann, who has a parish is in Oberhaid, says that his superiors asked him to leave the priesthood after he revealed the truth about his daughter. Continue Reading... Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May: A Day to Celebrate Heritage and History By Fr Randy Sly | May 5, 2014 Cinco de Mayo currently has only a regional importance in Mexico. In the United States and other countries, however, the day has come to be known as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.  Starving and destitute, Kianna meets a very special 'friend' - Part II By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 4, 2014 Kianna made her way to the marketplace, walking unpaved, dirt roads. It would be here she would spend the day panhandling for coins in order to buy food for her brothers and ailing mother. She had taken to stealing bits of food from stalls recently, but she knew that this was wrong. If she was to be caught, angry shopkeepers would beat her as an example to all the other street urchins. Kianna reached the main part of the street, and saw lots of familiar faces - there were untold other children just like her, all vying for the same limited amount of money doled out by shoppers. Continue Reading... Hope and Healing After Abortion: Mother's Day Mercy & The Mother of God By Theresa Bonopartis | May 4, 2014 This spring, my son Joshua whom I aborted, would have been 44 years old. Hard to believe. I was 17 at the time of my abortion and at the end of my 4th month of pregnancy. Coerced and abandoned by my family, I gave in to the pressure to abort because I felt I had no other choice. It was pre Roe vs. Wade, but abortion was legal in the state of New York, in fact, my abortion occurred at a local hospital, the same place where I would later give birth to my two living sons on the same maternity ward where I participated in the death of my first son, Joshua. As Mother's Day approaches, I know there are countess women out there whose abortion connectors are going off like fireworks. It seems on Mother's Day there is no place to hide from the pain of having participated in an abortion whether you were coerced or it was what you perceive as freely chosen. The accusatory voices inside and outside of your head scream at you a little louder as the world celebrates the gift of being a mother, a gift you refused to accept. Continue Reading... 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. Continue Reading... 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. Continue Reading... 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. Continue Reading... 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. Continue Reading...
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