![Pope John Paul II](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/11/tarwi-seedling-470x140.jpg)
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the…
![pentecost](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/holy-spirit-470x140.jpg)
It’s coming! Mixing old with new, a progress report on the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization was delivered in Latin, the ancient language…
![quote masons](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/freemasons-in-loge-470x140.jpg)
If those who are admitted as members are not commanded to abjure by any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this omission, so far…
![Being True in the Truth](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/muscle-car-masters-2010-470x140.jpg)
I had a dream last night, and well, it seems the Lord may be challenging every area in my life. I’m in this muscle car…
![Saint of the Week, Mary MacKillop](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/MaryMackillop1-470x140.jpg)
“She dedicated herself as a young woman to the education of the poor in the difficult and demanding terrain of rural Australia, inspiring other women…
![communion of saints](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/witych-obcowanie-470x140.jpg)
The holy universal Church is one Body, constituted under Jesus Christ its Head … Therefore, Christ, with His whole Church, both that which is still…
![Catholic Quote of the Day, August 27, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/marriage-scene-470x140.jpg)
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with…
![Catholic Quote of the Day, August 22, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/ivory-of-the-coronation-of-the-virgin-470x140.jpg)
39. Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the…
![Humanizing the Saints](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/Child-Gius-Sarto-thumb-300x140.jpeg)
It is easy to put canonized Saints on a pedestal. They are the best of humanity, most able to give love, humblest, theological prodigies, and…
![Catholic Quote of the Day, August 19, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/half-a-person-470x140.jpg)
We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for…