Love & Relationship

Mother's Day is a day to show how much you love your mom, so do just that. Show your mother the love she deserves.

The Creation of Mother's Day

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

The origin of Mother's Day goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. However the roots of Mother's Day can also be traced back in the United Kingdom where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated before it reached the United States. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The celebration of ...

Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman.

Around the Well

By Carolee Gifford • Catholic Online • 3/8/2012

"Why do you think Jesus went to her?" The strains of the famous song from "Lilies of the Field" filled my ears once more, "AAAmen! AAAmen! AAAmen! Amen! Amen!" It ended almost every one of my spirituality groups. Hands clapped and voices were raised - a bit of joy. ...

Thanks to the Jimmy Fund, Avalanna Routh got a pretend marriage to Bieber last year to earn the moniker 'Mrs. Bieber.' Her family created a Facebook page dedicated to somehow arranging a meeting between Routh and Bieber, and it came to be three days after Bieber tweeted the link to the WHDH segment to his more than 17 million followers.

Happy Valentine's Day! Six-year-old cancer patient gets date with Justin Bieber

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/14/2012

Six-year-old Avalanna Routh is battling a rare form of cancer. She put her struggles with the disease this Valentine's Day with a date with teen pop singing sensation Justin Bieber. A highlight of her very special day was a pretend wedding ceremony, her friends and family now calling her ...

Valentine's Day: Dr Denton Weiss on The Gift of Love and the Healing Power of Touch

By Dr. Denton D. Weiss, M.D. • Catholic Online • 2/14/2012

As a Physician, love is often expressed in the touch of my hands to the patients placed before me. Jesus touched the lepers head and he was healed. The words have rolled through my mind since Mass last Sunday when it was proclaimed in the Gospel text (Mk 1: 40-45). Wow, the power of love and the ...

Catholic, Gay, and Feeling Fine, Thanks: Part 1

By Sonja Corbitt • Catholic Online • 11/9/2011

The persecution and bigotry from both sides of the issue proceed, partly, from misunderstanding. Steve Gershom's simultaneous Catholicity and SSA are what is so compelling about his message. Ultimately he beautifully illustrates the tension between the beauty of faith and honest acknowledgment of ...

The robot has only a handful of tricks, like saying 'Hello, my name is Kaspar. Let's play together,' The robot also laughs when his sides or feet are touched, raising his arms up and down, or hiding his face with his hands and crying out 'Ouch. This hurts,' when he's slapped too hard.

Kaspar the Friendly Robot helps autistic children

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 3/9/2011

At a pre-school for autistic children in Stevenage, north of London, researchers bring in a human-looking, child-sized robot weekly for a supervised session with children, whose autism ranges from mild to severe. Playing with the robot for up to 10 minutes alongside a scientist who controls the ...

The biggest spike for breakups was after Valentine's Day, as that holiday has a way of defining relationships, for better or worse and in the weeks leading up to spring break.

Facebook has fascinating theory on romantic breakups

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 11/2/2010

Facebook is the premiere social networking site that is literally into everybody's business - marital and/or relationship status, employment, education, you name it. It stands to follow that a database that tracks when people hookup, break up and make up would have a relevant chart showing the ups ...

'Dear Christian families, proclaim joyfully to the whole world the wonderful treasure which you, as domestic churches, possess!' -- Venerable Pope John Paul II.

The Most Holy Trinity: Supreme Model for Family And Marriage

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

The importance of the family cannot be overstressed. The Church considers the family as 'the first natural society,' and "places it at the center of social life" (CSDC No. 211). John Paul II observed in Christifideles Laici that the family is presented, in the Creator's plan, as 'the primary place ...

You and I are precious to His heart and worth the price of His own blood. Any feeling or thought or voice that says, 'No, that's not true' is just the hiss of a snake.

Inspire: Unfailing Love and a Heart Like Mine

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 4/25/2010

You and I are loved beyond our comprehension. No language exists that can capture the quality of His love for us and the lengths to which He has gone to rescue His lost children. Only the Word Himself can say it. He who owed me nothing at all, who had nothing to prove, patiently and ...

A failure to communicate

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 2/24/2010

There are countless reasons as to why marriages fail. Marital infidelity, physical and mental abuse, sexual incompatibly and financial problems are just the tip of the iceberg. According to author Sonal Panse, the leading cause of divorce is a lack of communication. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...