Catholic Journal
Faith

A New Commandment

One of the worst sinking feelings we do not want to experience in our fast-paced world is pressing the ignition button and failing to hear the vrmmmm sound of our car awakening from its mechanical sleep.The readings (Is 55:1-3; Romans 8:35, 37-39);...

Fr Dino Vanin
32 minutes ago
Faith

Every Day We Are Given Opportunities to Make a Difference

Temple University in Philadelphia is the third largest university in Pennsylvania; it enjoys a worldwide reputation for research, scholarship, and education, and has international campuses in Tokyo and Rome, in addition...

Fr Joseph Esper
3 days ago

All Essays

Faith

If It Makes You Happy

In 1996, the American singer & songwriter, Sheryl Crow, wrote and performed a song that made its way to the Billboard Top Ten and earned her a Grammy. Entitled If It Makes You Happy, the lyrics go like this… If it...

Deacon Kurt Godfryd
February 16, 2025
Faith

Collagen for Our Prayer

Warning: Statements made in this article are not supported by either Doctors of the Church nor medicine… My knees hurt. Age, arthritis, sports… who knows why. Besides routine aches, I also notice this joy of aging when...

Deacon Gregory Webster
Faith

Forgiving Ourselves

A constant theme in the presentations I make through Spirit Filled Hearts Ministry, my apostolate, is that of forgiveness, beginning with forgiving ourselves. We are forgiven. Amen? We may know that in our heads, but is...

Deacon Steve Greco
February 11, 2025
Faith

Opening Ourselves to Jesus’ Miracles

We are swamped with words. Some poisonous like gossip; some devastating like slander; others unsettling like rumors and criticism. Most of them, though, are empty and meaningless, hot air—precisely. How many millions of...

Fr Dino Vanin
Faith

Looking for Loopholes

On his deathbed, comedian W. C. Fields was reputed to have been frantically thumbing through a Bible. When questioned the confirmed atheist replied in his inimical way, Looking for loopholes. This title came to me just...

William Borst
January 31, 2025
Culture

You Got Anxiety?

Worried about the future? Over eat or under eat? Irritable at times? Get headaches or belly aches? Avoid or sit out of social activities? Can’t focus? Well, this was another one of my favorite lectures in psychology...

Michael Baglino