Friar & Priest, and Companions, Martyrs
Among the eleven martyrs commemorated this day, three were Dominicans. They were part of
a band of preachers whose success at Avignonet, to the southwest of Toulouse, induced a number of
Albigensian heretics to ambush the group and treacherously murder them on May 29, 1242. As they
died they gave witness to the [...]

Under the terms of a 1984 concordat between the Vatican and Italy, the Church benefits from tax provisions that allow the government to collect funds designated for the Church. Italian taxpayers can make tax-free donations of up to $8 for every $1,000 in income.  This year the Italian government collected more he Catholic Church has [...]

Police in India have arrested more than 4,000 people taking part in a New Delhi rally protesting violence against Christians, the AsiaNews service reports. Police arrested nearly all the participants in the rally, which was staged near the parliament building in New Delhi.
John Dayal, secretary-general of the All India Christian Council, and president of the All India [...]

Letter Recalls Life of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi
St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi is a symbolic figure of living love that recalls an essential dimension of every Christian life, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said this in a letter to the Cardinal Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Carmelite [...]

Human Suffering

May 29, 2007 | 2 Comments

Human suffering seems to make no sense. The reflective Catholic senses that there must be a further answer that can only be found in the Passion of Christ. We must realize that we can only find true happiness in the next world when we see God face to face.
For those of us who live daily [...]

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