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Every now and then a special book comes along that grabs you and leaves a mark.  BIG HEARTED: Inspiring Stories from Everyday Families is such a book.  Deacon Mike and I are blessed to know and work with co-authors Theresa Thomas and Patti Maguire Armstrong who are also popular contributing writers for Integrated Catholic Life. 

Nigeria, the world’s seventh most populous nation, “now almost totters on the brink” of disaster, the nation’s bishops warned in a statement entitled “To Rescue Nigeria from …

Phoenix, Ariz., May 25, 2013 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against an Arizona law banning abortions after 20 weeks, but backers of the measure are hopeful that the case will result in a favorable Supreme Court decision. “The decision from the Ninth Circuit was expected, but [...]

  Editor’s Note: A reader from Ohio writes in a note sent along in the same envelope with his check for the fifth anniversary fund drive: “Don’t you dare go out of business.” I’d like to assure him – and all of you – that we have no intention of doing any such thing. But we can only continue this vital work so long as our readers and friends – meaning you and others you can send our way – will help meet our costs.

The Christian Brothers in the US have agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle the claims of plaintiffs in sex-abuse cases. The Christian Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in 2011, …

The video below is a humorous reminder that, in times like these, when technology changes so rapidly, a few of us can easily get left behind. There is also something in the video of an admonition to the Church lest we be too much like the old man in the video. And this is so [...]

Just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend, Archbishop Chaput’s weekly column notes the IRS scandals, the HHS Mandate, and what it all means for Catholics and religious liberty. Religious Freedom And the Need To Wake Up By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput “IRS officials have, of course, confessed that they inappropriately targeted conservative groups [...]

A French priest has been removed from ministry after he refused to end his active involvement with a Masonic lodge. Father Pascal Vesin was asked by Bishop Yves Boivineau of Annecy to …

Human trafficking is “an ignoble activity, a disgrace to our society that calls itself civilized,” Pope Francis said in a May 24 address to the Pontifical Council of Migrants, which is …