WISHING YOU A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!!
December 23, 2023
All of us at the Catholic Business Journal, including Daily Mass Readings manager Sarah Atchley (Thomas Aquinas College grad and Augustine Institute grad) , our Columnists including Tim Von Dohlen and Thomas A. Carroll, CFA, and The Mentor Radio hosts Thomas “Tom” M. Loarie and Dan Hesse (both University of Notre Dame grads) wish you…
LEAD BY EXAMPLE: Arrested in 2020, Catholic Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong Trial begins today, Dec 18, 2023
We cull here primarily from the Wall Street Journal and from the BBC, all links are included below for more robust reading. Today, three years after his arrest by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who now rule Hong Kong, devout Catholic and successful, wealthy news mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested. He faces life in prison…
Catholics in the Holy Land gather at prayer vigil to prepare for Christmas
Christians in Jerusalem began the weekend before Christmas with an evening of prayer and music. On Friday, Dec. 22, in the Church of St. Saviour, the Latin parish of Jerusalem, a small crowd of faithful gathered around the patriarch, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for the penitential liturgy and Christmas carols performed by the three choirs of…
Saint John Henry Newman’s Christmas Invitation
Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman gives us a wonderful Christmas reflection on the Shepherds, who where the first to whom the Birth of Our Saviour was announced on that history-changing night. This great saint invites you and I to echo in our hearts what drew Our Lord to these shepherds in the first place—lowliness and…
Catholic Teens will Long Remember Pastor Fr. Jarett Konrade’s Creative Fundraiser: A 79-Foot Basketball Shot… WHAT?!!!
THIS is the way to fundraise for a Catholic school or parish; where parish students, priests and community are engaged and involved 200%!!! You don’t think students at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic school and church in Beloit, Kansas, aren’t gonna remember the epic 79.6-foot basketball swisher dunk made by their parish pastor Fr.…
BREAKING: Vatican court convicts Cardinal Becciu, sentences him to 5 years in jail for embezzling funds
CNA—Judges delivered verdicts in the Vatican’s financial corruption trial on Saturday sentencing Cardinal Angelo Becciu to more than five years in prison and convicting five other defendants to similar jail sentences for financial crimes. Historic Trial, Becciu’s Sentence Becciu, the pope’s former chief of staff, is the highest ranking Vatican official ever to face a…
The Freedom of Africa, A Fresh Perspective on Life
“We live in such a safe environment that we get disconnected from nature, and people don’t appreciate how most of the world lives,” says Michael Core, a member of the Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) President’s Council from Thousand Oaks, California. “I wanted to give an experience to a TAC graduate that would take them way…
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Memorial of St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church
