Pope John Paul II first spoke of a “new evangelization” in a homily on June 9, 1979. There, in his Polish homeland, he said: “A new evangelization has begun, as if it were a new proclamation, even if in reality it is the same as ever.” Four years later in an address …
HUGE news from Logos Bible Software today: they’ve preempted the USCCB in making the first ever Catechism of the Catholic Church mobile application. It’s available on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices and comes with all of Logos’ awesome features–internal cross-referencing, pop-out excerpts, Scriptural links, and a whole lot more. Here’s a video showing the …
It’s no secret that new media is blanketing our world. Facebook has more than 900 million users. Today there will be over 200 million tweets. And last month people watched three billion hours of video on YouTube. That’s not even mentioning text messaging (Americans exchanged 1.8 trillion in 2010) or blogs (more than …
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Today is the feast day of St. Josemaria Escriva, and if you’d like to learn more about this spiritual giant you can hardly do better than Eric Sammons’s new book, Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva (Our Sunday Visitor, paperback, 144 pages). I reviewed the book last month: “In Holiness for …
Popular Atheist-turned-Catholic Leah Libresco was recently interviewed on CNN about her conversion to Catholicism, and she dazzled viewers with her sharpness and charm. In the interview she explains the important role objective morality played in her conversion, which was also a prime factor for C.S. Lewis’ own shift. Watch the interview below: Elizbaeth Scalia …
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