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On March 26, 2026, Noelia Castillo Ramos, a twenty-five-year-old Spanish woman, died by legal euthanasia in Barcelona. Her father fought for twenty months to stop it. He argued that his daughter, already marked by suicide attempts, psychiatric illness, trauma, and severe physical suffering, should f...

Jesus tells His disciples that there is empty fear and worthy fear.  How will they know the difference? Gospel (Read Mt. 10:26-33) The tenth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel begins with Jesus calling the Twelve Apostles, then sending them out to preach the Good News He’s going to teach them.  He gives th...

The famed Dominican friar Meister Eckhart has a phrase, “Love has no why” (Die Minne hat kein Warum), and it is perhaps one of the most famous statements in Western Christian mysticism. In its fuller, but less familiar form, he writes: “Love has no why. It loves because it loves. It knows no reason....

John, the son of Zebedee, was a simple man who fished the waters of the Sea of Galilee in the first century A.D. He joined Jesus after hearing John the Baptist proclaim that Jesus was the Lamb of God. He witnessed many of Jesus’ miracles, including the astonishing miracle of the healing of the Geras...

Dads, grandfathers, mentors, clergy—so many men in our communities are uplifting friends and loved ones, many going unseen. This Father’s Day, Catholic Exchange brings you true stories of fathers transforming lives. Neighborhood Favorite -Lynne Parker Davis from Atlanta, GA My dad, Jack Gordon Parke...

What don’t you like about yourself? Even after going to Confession, do you still sometimes feel ashamed of your sins? And is this making you wonder if Father God is keeping you in misery because you don’t deserve better treatment? Father God is full of compassion for you. Compassion is not something...

Jacques Maritain and his dear friend Raïssa Oumansoff were students at the Sorbonne. Their searching intellects, however, were frustrated by the fact that they could find no truth that would satisfy their restless minds. At that time Jacques was without any religious belief, and Raïssa was a self-de...

The Holy Spirit is rightly called the Sweet Guest of our souls because He is the loving God of power and consolation dwelling within us. Yet He is also called the Great Unknown because we do not know Him as much as we should. He is the powerful guest with us and within us always, yet we often fail t...

As a child I was fascinated by the television show Bewitched. I dreamed of having Samantha’s ability to twitch her nose and make a messy room neat as a pin, a broken lamp unbroken, or dress and be ready for a fancy party straight from her housework clothes. The word fascinate itself means to bewitch...

May marked the 130th anniversary of the birth of Stanisława Leszczyńska, a Servant of God and midwife at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The unveiling of a monument in her honour was preceded by a solemn Mass at the Visitationist Church in Warsaw. Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, the Archbishop of Kraków, presided over t...