A KID-SIZED HOLY SPIRIT
God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit—the Trinity, with which all Catholics are familiar, even if the concept of the Holy Trinity isn’t always easy to understand in human terms.“Yet, children have an...
View ArticleSAINT PROFILE: BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS
As a child in a poor French family in the Hautes-Pyrenees town of Lourdes, Bernadette suffered both asthma and cholera. Uneducated, she had not made her first Communion by 1858, the year she...
View ArticleSMART THINKING
More than 90 juniors and seniors and 10 teachers from Santa Ana’s Mater Dei High School got a hands-on experience about what it’s like to be an inventor on April 4, when they visited the Innovation Lab...
View ArticleATHLETE PROFILE: KATHRYN KREBS OF CONNELLY
With a love for both watching and playing sports, Kathryn Krebs didn’t think twice about trying out for the cheerleading squad as a fifth grader at her elementary school. Krebs made the squad and has...
View ArticleEDUCATION IN FAITH
Up until two years ago, Paul Gerrard had been reading lots of Catholic books to augment his spirituality. Then he learned about the Institute of Pastoral Ministry from a fellow parishioner at St....
View ArticleBIG LEAGUE DREAMS
Since spring 2003, hundreds of baseball players have donned a varsity uniform for one of the five Orange County-based Trinity League teams.Only five were wearing an MLB jersey on Opening Day of...
View ArticleST. BONAVENTURE HOSTS MENTAL HEALTH FORUM
St. Bonaventure Parish’s Justice and Peace Ministry and Knights of Columbus Council 6020 will sponsor a Mental Health Awareness Forum at 7 p.m. on May 12. Experts will discuss symptoms and behaviors of...
View ArticleECUADOR EARTHQUAKE RELIEF ON THE WAY
Saturday’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Ecuador has left hundreds of people dead, hundreds more injured and thousands without needed supplies. Catholic Relief Services is already at...
View ArticleSUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON OBAMA’S DEFERRED DEPORTATION PROGRAMS
WASHINGTON (CNS) — All eyes are once again on what seems to be an evenly divided Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments April 18 in a major case impacting a U.S. immigration policy.After the 90...
View ArticleMISSISSIPPI BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO BAN DISMEMBERMENT ABORTIONS
JACKSON, Miss. (CNS) — A new law in Mississippi will prohibit dismemberment abortions, effective July 1.“This law has the power to change how the public views the gruesome reality of abortion in the...
View ArticleMEET SISTER EILEEN MCNERNEY, CSJ
YEARS AS A RELIGIOUS: 58HER ROLE: Assistant General SuperiorFIRST JOB: Selling men’s underwear at Newberry’s Department StoreHOW SHE WAS CALLED: “Due to the influence of Sisters of St. Joseph when I...
View ArticleCATHEDRAL IN BLOOM
Not only is Christ Cathedral an important center of spiritual life for more than one million Orange County Catholics, but efforts are underway to make it one of the centers of art, music and culture...
View ArticleSMCHS SENIOR CLASS PILGRIMAGE 2016
Follow the SMCHS senior class in this video as they depart on a 14-mile pilgrimage from their high school and head to the Basilica at Mission San Juan Capistrano.Several hundred students participated,...
View ArticleSPEAKERS HOPEFUL POST-SCALIA COURT WILL HAVE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ADVOCATE
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Even without Justice Antonin Scalia and with the likelihood of deadlocks by an eight-member Supreme Court for some time to come, there’s still hope for a strong religious liberty...
View Article‘COLLECTIVE INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE’ ONLY COUNTER TO TERROR, NUNCIO SAYS
UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Only a “collective international response” can thwart the specter of terrorism that crosses borders, according to the Vatican’s permanent observer mission to the United...
View ArticleEUCHARISTIC MIRACLE IN POLAND
Legnica, Poland, Apr 18, 2016 / 02:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News) – A bleeding Host that “has the hallmarks of a Eucharistic miracle” was approved for veneration in Poland over the weekend.The announcement was...
View ArticleCUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RECEIVES MILLIONS IN DONATIONS, GETS NEW NAME
Washington D.C., Apr 19, 2016 / 04:56 pm (CNA) – The Catholic University of America’s business school has received several major financial gifts, including the largest donation in university...
View ArticleSPRING FORTH IN FAITH
Spring in Southern California is subtle, but we can sense it in the greening of front lawns and the budding of leaves in parkways. There’s a freshness in the air, an anticipation of sunny skies and...
View ArticleHABERDASHERY FOR THE HEART OF JESUS
The Gentlemen’s Haberdashery, an annual fundraising luncheon that supports the Heart of Jesus Retreat Center, drew 430 guests to its April 11 event at the Ritz-Carlton, said Sister Rosemarie Karl, the...
View ArticleTHE PAIN – AND SURPRISING BEAUTY – OF HOSPICE CARE FOR BABIES
Washington D.C., Apr 21, 2016 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News) – They’re the last words any expecting parent wants to hear. But though it’s rarely discussed, thousands of couples every year get the news:...
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