Doctors of the Church

Doctors of the Church

All of the saints are examples of heroic sanctity. A select few have guided the faithful by exceptional writing or preaching that transcends time....
Abstaining from Meat

Abstaining from Meat

On Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent, Catholics 14 years of age and older are required to abstain from eating meat....
Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, a day when Catholics are marked with ashes on their foreheads. Symbolizing the dust that man was created from...
Lent

Lent

During the prayerful and penitential season of Lent, Catholics imitate Jesus’ 40 days in the desert through prayer, fasting, self-denial, almsgiving, and other good...
Candlemas

The Presentation of the Lord

The Law of Moses required that the first-born male child was to be offered to God as thanks for sparing the Israelites during the...
Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

Dear Lord, there is something I want, I need badly. I hope I want it for Thy Glory and it’s best for my salvation....
Catholic Bishops

Catholic Bishops

Today’s Catholic bishops are successors to the original Apostles chosen by Jesus. From the Cathedral that holds the special chair of the bishop, he...