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• Saints of the Old Testament: St. Daniel, prophet
  While the Roman Church's traditional calendar of saints on this day bestows chief honor upon the holy virgin Praxedes, next in order after St. Praxedes the traditional Roman Martyrology also recalls her children's memory to an Old Testament saint who was blessed with the singular grace of seeing remarkably detailed visions and uttering astoundingly […]
• Sharing the Word for July 21, 2017
  Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time July 21, 2017 Daily Reading from the USCCB: Exodus 11:10-12:14 https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SW_071511_I.mp3   God had sent trials on the Egyptians to force them to allow the Israelites to leave Egypt, but to no avail. Now God prepares a final intervention.
• Lessons Learned from Hollywood about the Priesthood and Religious Life
  What could Hollywood teach us about the religious life?  It’s easy to get discouraged by how badly movies and television portray the Catholic Church.  It was not always the norm, however, and I decided to host a summer movie series to remind everyone that “secular” movies can teach us something about religious life and even… holiness! For the series I [...] […]
• A Filipina who promoted the feminine genius before John Paul II did
  Encarnacion Alzona was the first Filipina to complete her doctoral studies; she was a national scientist, and a pioneering advocate of women’s suffrage.   Many accuse Catholicism of treating women as inferior to men because women can’t be priests. But a closer look will show how mistaken this accusation is, especially since the Church’s most admired Read Mor […]
• The beautiful Gregorian chant ‘Cibavit eos’
  We must never forget the wonderful sacred music of the past.“Cibavit eos” is a traditional Catholic hymn written in style of Gregorian chant. It was written anonymously, most likely by a monk or other religious member. Gregorian chant is one of the earliest styles of written music in the Western world and played an important Read More…
• You won’t believe how old these photos actually are
  This digital colorist is restoring old photographs to show how they would have looked to us today.If I showed you these photographs without any explanation, you would probably think that they were recently staged and taken, just like the people in this video. But in reality, these are black and white photographs from the 19th Read More…
• Meeting the living God in the New Mexico desert
  "We had truly stumbled across the most wonderful treasure in the most unlikely place."I remember looking out the airplane window marveling at the huge rock formations that seemed to shoot forth from the expansive red sand below, and wondering what this new adventure would bring. Such a barren land – strikingly similar to Jordan and Read More…
• A pizza for the pope!
  Photo of the Day: July 21, 2017Pope Francis is presented a pizza during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Photograph by Fabio Frustaci for the Associated Press
• Whatever happened to the Twelve Apostles?
  Jesus told his apostles to "go" and that's exactly what they did, taking the Gospel to different parts of the world. Before Jesus ascended into Heaven he said to his apostles, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” Having a divine mandate to travel the world for the sake of the Gospel, the apostles didn’t Read More…
• Why one religious professor is scared to death of ‘Night of the Living Dead’
  For Dr. Kim Paffenroth, what made George Romero’s zombie apocalypse so terrifying was how true to life it was.When George Romero passed away on July 16, the world lost one of its greatest horror filmmakers. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, a stark black-and-white vision of flesh-eating ghouls surrounding a group of people Read More…