Living Faith

Above all, she leads us by the hand to the source of our eternal Food. She calls us to the table now to take and eat the Bread of Life.

Marian Reflection: A Mother who Feeds us the Bread of Heaven

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 6/12/2010

As she once gave her womb to Him, feeding Him with her own body as He grew, now in her heart we find all that we hunger for - the Living Bread of Heaven. He rules her heart forever as both her King and her Son, and as her children, we who seek the care of our Mother's heart are fed by the ...

Our spiritual Mother never ceases to pray from the depths of her Immaculate Heart for the repentance and conversion of her children in the Church.

Immaculate Heart of Mary: Heart of a Compassionate Mother

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 6/12/2010

When we truly realize the love the Immaculate Heart of Mary holds for us, what she endured in her life, and the harsh pain she felt as she stood before the cross and witnessed her Son brutally put to death for our sins, there is an intense sense of humility and gratitude that flows from the depths ...

A Connecticut man, trapped in a basement when his arm became stuck in a furnace, began to sever his own arm in desperation.

Man almost severed arm to free himself from furnace

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/11/2010

A Connecticut man, trapped in a basement when his arm became stuck in a furnace, began to sever his own arm in desperation. Thirty-one-year-old Jonathan Metz began to smell rotting flesh, and decided that amputation was his only hope. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Metz fashioned a ...

I recently found a photo of a little boy facing a sumo wrestler, I feel just like that, facing this modern day Goliath. Cancer felt like a giant.

Testimony of Living Faith: Facing a Modern Day Goliath of Cancer

By Marjory Erdman • Catholic Online • 6/11/2010

For the person who receives a cancer diagnosis, saying the words "I have Cancer" is very hard at first to get out. Harder still are the feelings that come along with it.If you battle cancer, you may face a similar experience. There is an over whelming feeling of a colossal Goliath in your ...

Outside of lightings for Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah and Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan), the Empire State Building 'has a specific policy against any other lighting for religious figures or requests by religions and religious organizations.'

Empire State Building declines to honor Mother Teresa

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/10/2010

The Empire State Building in New York City has declined to observe what would have been Mother Teresa's 100th birthday in August. It's left a lot of the nun's followers out in the cold - and they plan to quietly protest the policy. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Outside of lightings for ...

Francis Cardinal George: 'The month of the Sacred Heart and the Year for Priests'

By Francis Cardinal George, OMI • Catholic New World • 6/10/2010

In 2002, Pope John Paul II said that addressing the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by some bishops and priests will result in the purification of the priesthood itself. To a great extent, I believe that has happened in this country. It has to happen elsewhere as well. The suffering of ...

Father Stanzione is hoping the Holy Father will convoke a year in honor of St. Michael the Archangel, and that the tradition of praying to the angel after Mass will be re-established.

Father Marcello Stanzione: Proclaiming the Good News of the Existence and Work of Angels

By Alfonso Sarno • Zenit News Agency • 6/9/2010

Father Stanzione is hoping the Holy Father will convoke a year in honor of St. Michael the Archangel, and that the tradition of praying to the angel after Mass will be re-established. "He can do everything," Father Stanzione affirmed, referring to the archangel. CAMPAGNA, Italy (Zenit.org) - Father ...

The founder of CL is Fr. Luigi Giussani.

Communion and Liberation: Community of Faith based upon an Encounter With Christ

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 6/9/2010

Fr. Giussani died on February 22, 2005, in his home in Milan; yet his desire to instill in others a love for Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church continues on in CL members across the world over. To this day CL's task unfolds as "an ecclesial movement whose purpose is the education to ...

The incident, in which a four-year-old boy fell from a window and survived was ruled an accident, and the adults in the home do not face criminal charges.

Toddler survives 7-story fall

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/7/2010

A 4-year-old boy has miraculously survived a fall from seven stories, his fall broken by palm trees. Police say the child fell from his family's 17th floor terrace to land safely on a 10th floor balcony. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Investigators say the boy's family was at home when he ...

Nineteen years ago, John Paul II was the Pope and this is the first time that I have been to Rome without the presence of Pope John Paul II. He is gone and I do feel his absence.

Fr. James Farfaglia from Rome: Praying at the Tomb of the Venerable John Paul II

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 6/7/2010

It is early Sunday morning in Rome. Nineteen years ago, John Paul II was the Pope and this is the first time that I have been to Rome without the presence of Pope John Paul II. He is gone and I do feel his absence. Deacon Keith Fournier sent me an email last night, urging me ...