And also in increase in conversions in the USA too. https://www.ncregister.com/news/easter-2025-new-catholics-by-the-numbers
The renewal in the church reminds me of today's first reading. Jewish authorities told the apostles to stop preaching in the name of Jesus, but they continued to do so anyway, and the Word spread. It's like nothing the authorities do or say can stop it.
Apologist Wesley Huff revealed that Joe Rogan is now regularly attending a Christian church. https://x.com/AFpost/status/1924964831389745410
Are you preparing for a outpouring of the Holy Spirit this Pentecost? If you do you will not be disappointed. Ask yourself...What is it that you want God to free you from? Ask Him!
Google searches on ‘how to become a Catholic’ surge 373% after death of Pope Francis https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/g...atholic-surge-373-after-death-of-pope-francis Perhaps this is related to why this site is getting a surge in traffic.
Our daughter called me today to inform me that the Catholic faith is consistently trending on all social media. This started a wonderful discussion on issues that were unapproachable just a few months ago. It ended well with her expressing a desire to go to confession and I am blown away!
Maybe it is in part that societies are touching bottom on so many levels. It seems very,very hard for many young people just to get a good job or buy a nice house. Things that we all took for granted in times past. People are faced with a really hard life often just in getting by. Sometimes I think it is even hard for them to scrape the money together to get married. I sometimes try to imagine life without Faith in God. It is so hard to imagine. Life can be very,very hard, even at the best of times when things are going well.
I am following your advice in a singular way. My pastor is an African priest from Ghana who has recently returned home for a well deserved vacation until the end of the month. Since his departure I've been very busy with graveside committals, baptisms, bible studies, homilies, etc...When I've come up for air and digested the news it seems everything is tense: Papal dissection, international stress, economic downturn, genocide, and the pointing of fingers. The one highlight that happened today is that week-long rain has ended and I can now mow the grass! The best recourse we have is to follow your advice, non sum dignus. Less chatter and more silence sounds refreshing.Thank you! One day at a time, under the protective Mantle of Our Lady! Lord have Mercy! Come Holy Spirit!
I wonder if this is true... If he were to convert to Catholicism that would be amazing. A lot of his listeners might follow suit. Man is by nature spiritual, we have a body and soul and I think the invisible can only be starved for so long. Before Christ's coming man found every way to distort religion and worship falsely but man never denied the obvious, that our actions in this life will have a direct effect on where we go the next. Today, in contrast, through the Enlightenment and eventual birth of our Modernist world man has effectively denied all existence of our spiritual body- we are either told it doesn't exist, it's a fake, whatever excuse you want. Yet, people cannot erase the invisible side of them, that's why we are seeing a rise in spiritual practices, whether witchcraft, yoga meditation or whatever else people are doing. I think we live in a very unique age of humanity, generations have grown up with every material comfort and distraction and choosing a religion is similar to what artwork you decorate your home with. It's great and exciting seeing public figures talking about Catholicism, like Candace Owens, Rogan, physically uncomfortable in discussions with the supernatural yet he contiunally grapples with it, Jimmy Corsetti being convinced Gobekli Tepe is Noah's site where he built his first altar. It is very much like the beginning of the Church, first in drips and then the floodgates opened!
'Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise; your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning. And so we men, who are a due part of your creation, long to praise you – we also carry our mortality about with us, carry the evidence of our sin and with it the proof that you thwart the proud. You arouse us so that praising you may bring us joy, because you have made us and drawn us to yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. Grant me to know and understand, Lord, which comes first. To call upon you or to praise you? To know you or to call upon you? Must we know you before we can call upon you? Anyone who invokes what is still unknown may be making a mistake. Or should you be invoked first, so that we may then come to know you? But how can people call upon someone in whom they do not yet believe? And how can they believe without a preacher?'
So these two popular artists were doing a bit of praise and worship during a concert in Philadelphia and a rainbow showed up.
