The Church often cites verses from the eleventh chapter of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah as the source of its traditional list of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Continue reading The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
A married Polish couple, who were killed with their children and unborn baby by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish family, will be declared worthy of veneration by the Catholic Church this year. Continue reading Modern Polish Martyrs: Family To Be Beatified, Including Unborn Child
In this post we’ll see how certain provisions of the Mosaic law prefigure a key principle of the Church’s Social Teaching, the Universal Destination of Goods. Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine states this principle quite succinctly: “Each human … Continue reading The Daughters of Zelo’phehad