Acknowledgement DeMarco, Donald. The Virtue of Integrity. Lay Witness (October 1999). Reprinted with permission of Lay Witness magazine. Lay Witness is the flagship publication of Catholics United for ...

Given this understanding, we can add some specifics. When a priest offers Holy Mass, he has three intentions: First, to offer the Mass reverently and validly in accord with the norms of the Church.

Vatican II in Session, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. “The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and ...

The official process for declaring someone a saint is called canonization. Prior to the year 1234, the Church did not have a formal process as such. Usually martyrs and those recognized as holy were ...

The opening number of the section of the family begins with how Sacred Scripture repeatedly underlines the importance and centrality of the family. The book of Genesis narrates the creation of the ...

The Dormition of Mary I tuned to a television station for the Rosary. When the priest reached the 4th decade, “the Assumption,” they showed scenes of a Church in Israel named, “The Sleep of Mary.” The ...

THE ART OF TEACHING How does God the Father teach His children? He accepts His children as they are, and He works to free them from sin and to draw them to Himself. God the Father works through the ...

St. Paul writes to the Philippians of the glory that our currently lowly bodies will one day enjoy: He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified Body by the power that enables him also ...

The Second Vatican Councils Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests (Presbyterorum Ordinis, 1965) asserted: Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven was recommended by ...

In order to do some justice to this sublime subject, we shall look only briefly at the heretical positions that at various periods of the Church’s history challenged the revealed Trinitarian faith.

The substantial output of medieval scholarship that was produced in the twentieth century should have put this inane caricature to rest once and for all, but here we have another case of specialized ...

Slogans can be dangerous. For example, “Remember the Alamo!” rings out with calls for vindictive revenge. To many, the phrase “The immemorial Tridentine Mass” implies that other forms of the ...