Worthy to read
  • Reports on Muslim Persecution of Christians
  • The 2013 year began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live side by side with large numbers of Muslims, they are under attack.
  • Same-sex marriage bill undermines the common good
  • (2013-01-26 15:18:37 ) The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have reacted strongly to a bill published by the British government on Friday regarding legalisation of marriage for same-sex couples.  
  • Pope: Open your hearts to the sweetness of God’s forgiveness
  • Tuesday of Holy Week was marked in the Vatican by morning mass presided by Pope Francis in the chapel of Casa Sancta Marta.
  • Caritas Lebanon: Help us save refugees from Syria
  • Fr. Simon Faddoul describes a dramatic and painful situation for over 400 thousand refugees. The snow and floods have destroyed tents and shacks. Thousands of people do not even have shoes to walk in the mud. Caritas and other organizations need resources to face this emergency. The appeal of Caritas President: "Your help is needed. Even a small contribution can help alleviate the suffering o...
  • Stamping Out Pornography Addiction
  •   Psychologist Peter Kleponis on the New Cocaine and How to Get Rid of It
  • Is the Christian Era in the Middle East Over?
  • Israel has become the only safe haven for Christians in the Middle East, Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, wrote in a recent op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal.
  • On Elijah's Lessons in Prayer
  •   "True Adoration of God Does Not Destroy, But Renews"
  • Where the soul dwells, Pope on theology of the body
  • Pope Benedict XVI received participants in a meeting sponsored by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. At the beginning of the address the Holy Father recalled that 30 years ago the newly Blessed John Paul II founded that Institute and the Pontifical Council for the Family and that it was precisely on 13 May thirty years ago that he "suffered the terrible ...
  • Love's Ill-Fated Separation: the Eros-Agape Divorce
  • There's an ill-fated separation going on within love itself, according to the preacher of the Pontifical Household. Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa says that "in the world we find eros without agape; among believers we often find agape without eros."  
  • Archive
  • Abortionist Turned Pro-Life Apostle
  • Stojan Adasevic will never forget the day he was organizing the filing cabinet in the doctors’ room. He was a medical student at the time. A number of gynecologists entered the room. Paying no attention to the student crouched over a pile of papers in the corner, they began swapping stories about their medical practice.
  • The Central Event of World History
  • The final 24 hours of the earthly life of Jesus mark the most important event in the history of the world. Too many of us have grown hardened and insensitive to the gospel accounts of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus.
  • What is Homosexual Love?
  • This article, prepared especially for LOA, is based on two pieces published by Grzegorz Gorny in the Fall 2003 edition of the Polish-language periodical Fronda: “Report on Minorities” and “The Truth Sets You Free — an Interview by Grzegorz Gorny with Professor Gerard van den Aardweg.” For additional information on this subject, our readers may refer to the Suggested R...
  • Pornography – the Work of Satan
  • When I was in grade four, a couple of friends and I started watching porno videos. The father of one of these friends had a whole stack of them. We would watch these perversions and masturbate together. This happened in the 1980s, when such material was pouring into Poland from Germany.
  • The Shroud of Manoppello
  • All indications point to the fact that the Shroud of Manoppello (otherwise known as “Veronica”) originated in Jerusalem. Scholars claim that the cloth bears the imprint of Christ’s face at the moment of His Resurrec-tion. It is probable that both the Veil and the Shroud of Turin made their way to Edessa in Cappadocia (modern-day Turkey) and remained there until the fifth century
  • Saint Edith Stein on the Meaning of Suffering
  • Satan in Music?
  •   Nominated for the Nobel Prize in the field of medicine by the Paris Institute of Sciences, Simone Morabito is one of Italy’s leading psychiatrists. Among other things, his book Psichiatra all’inferno (Psychiatry in Hell) deals with the influence of satanic rock music on the human mind.
  • Catholicism in North America. Perseverance Despite Hostility (Part One)
  • The Pope’s words proved to be prophetic: upon returning to Canada in 1644, Father Jogues resumed his missionary work. In 1846 he was captured and killed by the Iroquois. Almost three centuries later, in 1930, Pope Pius XI canonized Fr. Isaac Jogues as a martyr for the faith  
  • The True Face of in vitro Methods
  • At first it seems self-contradictory. The same groups that support abortion and the killing of the unborn now talk about mass infertility and the need for the universal introduction of artificial fertilization. Yet there is a blood-chilling consistency in this. We have here the next stage of the war on life, this time under the false slogan of “curing infertility.”
  • What does the Theory of Evolution Explain?
  • The theory of evolution claims to be a scientific theory that explains the world around us. The illogicality and inconsistency of these explanations are therefore somewhat surprising.