Dear Friends of UCU around the world! Pope Francis has called on everyone to organize a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine tomorrow on March 2, Ash Wednesday. On this day we all can share the sufferings of the Ukrainian people, to make everyone feel like brothers and sisters and to pray…
Tamara “Tammy” Durand, 52, wife of Catholic businessman Dave Durand, was among the now six people tragically killed in a Waukesha, Wis., massacre that happened Sunday afternoon, November 21, during the 58th annual Waukesha Christmas Parade. In addition to her husband, Tammy also leaves behind three children and a beloved two-year-old grandchild. One minute Tamara…
CNA—Did you know that you can get a plenary indulgence any day this November? It’s true. The Vatican has decided to grant Catholics who visit a cemetery to pray for the dead on any day in the month of November a plenary indulgence. Usually, the Catholic Church only grants this plenary indulgence for the souls…
CNA, Catholic Catechism—A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ, Mary and all the saints to remove the temporal punishment due to sin. The indulgence applies to sins already forgiven. A plenary indulgence cleanses the soul as if the person had just been baptized. A plenary…
Archbishop José H. Gomez, joined by bishops from across the country, leads faithful in praying a virtual rosary for the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, to seek our Blessed Mother’s intercession for the nation. The Rosary for America video is available today at https://lacatholics.org/rosary-for-america/. “Our hope is to unite Catholic people from across…
August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, was purposefully chosen as the official launch of Catholic Business Journal in 2007,. It is a feast day close to the heart of our mission and purpose. The last few months we’ve all watched as a suspicious virus pandemic and expansive Marxist-infused riots and marches—under the guise of…
A Lebanese Catholic priest has asked believers around the world to pray for the people of his country, after two explosions in Beirut injured hundreds of people and are reported to have left at least 10 people dead. “We ask your nation to carry Lebanon in its hearts at this difficult stage and we place…
Vatican News—Join Pope Francis in prayer and receive his extraordinary “Urbi et orbi” blessing and plenary indulgence on Friday, March 27, at 6pm Rome time. (1:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. CT / 11:00 a.m. MT / 10:00 a.m. PT) Watch here at the appointed time listed above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHI8bI0LWg Faithful across the world are invited…
Catholic Business Journal joins and encourages our readers to join with us and with both Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) in a Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during this pandemic. The novena begins today, March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation.…
What is commonly known as the St. Andrew Christmas Novena — or The St Andrew Christmas Prayer— is not a novena (because it is prayed for more than nine days), nor is it a prayer to St. Andrew. Instead, it is a most simple, unusual and beautiful prayer recitation that prepares the soul for Christmas. …
Reigning from 1198 to 1216, Pope Innocent III was one of the most influential and important popes of his era. He granted Francis of Assisi and his small band of followers permission to found the Order of Friars Minor; he convened the Fourth Lateran Council which, among other things, dogmatically defined the doctrine of transubstantiation;…
On Friday, June 28, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, members of the Thomas Aquinas College community will gather in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at 6:45 p.m. (PDT). Together we will pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary as part of WorldPriest’s annual Global Rosary Relay — an…
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. St. Thomas Aquinas
October 2, 2017
Pray that my home and my daily life will be greatly wonderfully blessed, graced by the Lord, good homes for extra animals that I will have great confidence, trust, home, love, respect, appreciation, and gratitude for Jesus and Mary, and for all victims of natural disasters, for Ron Rebers that he will mend correct his…
March 5, 2017
please pray Jesus for me to be luckier in life and to give me more success, also pray god for my friends named Oksana Nastia and Loulia in Kiev. Nastia is sick and poor and her mother Oksana is a widow. Sometimes she is very tense and aggressive. May God free her from all evil.…
December 17, 2016
DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, MY BROTHER-IN-LAW’S GRANDSON, LOGAN, 11 YEARS OLD, SUPPOSED TO BE TWELVE NEXT WEEK, IS VERY, VERY ILL, AND MAY NOT MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY! PLEASE, PLEASE PRAY REAL HARD FOR A MIRACLE HEALING!!! THANK YOU! Mrs. Jacqueline Marie Whittler
June 21, 2016
That we will stop getting persecuted for our beliefs and that we will be blessed with getting Catholic/Christian clients.
April 28, 2014
Please pray that Steve finds a job that will assist him in caring for his family. http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevecrate
March 1, 2013
My Cousin’s son will be fought over in court by his mother. Though my cousin and his son’s mom are not married, she wants to retain full parentalship and wants full child support. Sadly, her child will be the real victim of the situation. Her son is not even 2 yet, and she has a…
February 17, 2013
Twenty one years ago, Michelle was a brilliant medical student when she was hit by a car and came home very brain-injured. Today,though she is missing half her brain, she has recovered about 50% of her abilities and is able to live by herself. However, she lives a very sinful life now, having sex with…
