I love the Saints. I love that the Church gives them to us, raises them up so that we can see what holiness looks like lived out in this life. I love that they point to something better, brighter. What we see in shadows, little hints in the sacrament of the everyday, the heavenly saints behold in full glory. Here in the shadowlands we strain for a pale shimmer of heavenly sunrise, while they stand in full sun.
Kate James cradles her son Alfie Evans after his breathing tube was removed. (Photo posted by parents on social media.)
The world is rallying around tiny Alfie Evans as he continues to breathe on his own 40 hours after being removed from life support and his parents rush to appeal a lower court decision that is preventing the child from being flown to Italy for care.
USF Women of Grace: (Front L/R) Emma Lopez-Ponnada, Emily Donaire, Meredith Hines. (Back L/R) Angie Phewklieng, Janet Carina, Melissa Jones, Sandrine Urias. Maria Gonzalez is on computer via Skype with Isabelle Liberatore, Women of Grace Director of Administration & Development, holding laptop.
Women of all ages, and from as far away as Colombia, participated in a Full of Grace study at the University of South Florida (USF) where they embarked on an incredible journey of healing, hope, and new horizons.
Even though doctors said he would die within minutes after being removed from life support, two-year-old Alfie Evans has been breathing on his own for more than 15 hours as his parents pursue a last-ditch effort to have him transferred to Italy.
If you’re still looking for reasons not to watch broadcast television, NBC’s twisted comedy Superstore, which aired an episode where a woman refers to her unborn child as a “horrible parasite,” may be enough to convince you to quit the Big Three.
A scandal concerning the depraved writings of a professor who portrays Jesus as a feminine figure and possible “drag king” is causing outrage among the faithful who wonder why this professor is holding an endowed chair in New Testament studies at a 175-year-old Jesuit college.
Former navy pilot and committed Christian, Tammie Jo Shults, 56, who piloted Southwest 1380 to safety on Tuesday after part of an engine ripped off, is being hailed as a hero for how calmly and skillfully she landed the plane.
Regina Apostolorum in Rome where the week-long course "Exorcism and the Prayer of Liberation" is being held. (Wikicommons)
More than 250 people from 50 countries converged on Rome this week to attend a week-long course on exorcism and discuss the changing face of evil in our day.
Pope Francis met with the father of Alfie Evans, a two-year-old suffering from an undiagnosed neurological condition in a hospital seeking the removal of his life support, and has opened the door to allowing the child to be transferred to Bambino Gesu in Rome.
I love the Saints. I love that the Church gives them to us, raises them up so that we can see what holiness looks like lived out in this life. I love that they point to something better, brighter. What we see in shadows, little hints in the sacrament of the everyday, the heavenly saints behold in full glory. Here in the shadowlands we strain for a pale shimmer of heavenly sunrise, while they stand in full sun.
