Spirituality

Acknowledge those who have helped you One of the central points of the season of Lent is to be able to put the self under control, while we see grow...

Remember the ash Repent and believe in the Good News. Remember you are dust, and unto dust, you shall return. You must have heard either of these statements yesterday as...

Lent is the annual period of 40 days preceding Easter, which the Church sets aside as a time of prayer, fasting and penance. In this solemn and holy season, the...

The Sunday of the Word of God, established in 2019 by Pope Francis, is a truly inspired initiative, calling all the faithful to pay more attention to celebrate and pray...

The Nigerian Catholic weekly newspaper titled “Independent” of Sunday 12th July, 2015 carried a front page news captioned “Catholic Bishops Affirm Stand on Marriage”. According to the paper, Nigerian leaders...

The Immaculate Conception is, according to Roman Catholic doctrine, the conception of the Virgin Mary without any stain (“immacula” in Latin) of original sin. Hence Mary is sometimes called the...

Beginning in the 7th century and for a thousand years that followed, there was a great threat to Christian civilization, that of the Moslem sword. Setting out in the year...

On the 8th of December, 1854, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was solemnly defined and proclaimed by Pope Pius IX as follows: “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was,...

There is no gainsaying that steadily, the faithful are confronted with issues and realities that make them consider abandoning their Church. Though a sad reminder that things bear the imprints...

On Sunday, May 13, 1917, towards noon, three shepherd children – Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco were playing at the top of the slope of the Cova da Iria in Fatima,...