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Welcome to the International Website for the Catholic Men's Society
This is our home on the Internet. Here you will find the latest news and information about us. Please take a moment to visit the online Calendar for upcoming events and our News page for featured articles. Visitors are invited to sign up for our online mailing list for special news and announcements.
Our purpose is to encourage, help and prepare men to become active and responsible Christians, so that they may be able to assume the responsible role of the layman in the Church today.
Through baptism and confirmation, the laity are called to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ in their homes, families, parishes and workplace.
We hope you enjoy your visit and encourage you to check back often for updates! God bless you!
Purpose of the Society
TO KNOW HIM PERSONAL FORMATION The Society helps to train and inform the minds of its members; it does this via a promotion called The Plan. This is an annual programme of study and discussion by which the message of Christ is examined and applied to daily living. ...
Brother Paul McGowan was elected as the new National President of the Catholic Men's Society at the 133rd National Conference at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, September 2010.
The 6th Sunday of the Year (B)
Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
One day a farmer made a strange find. He came upon an eagle's egg and decided to put it into the nest of a farmyard hen. In time the eaglet hatched with the hen's chicks, and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the farmyard chickens did, thinking he was a ...
US Senate: Cardinal McCarrick defends religious freedom of Muslims, Catholics
Testifying before a senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on “Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick defended the religious freedom of Muslims and Catholics.
Speaking on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the ...
Persecution of Church looming in Sudan?
The secretary general of the Sudanese bishops’ conference is expressing concern that the Church in the northern part of the nation will suffer persecution if the residents of southern Sudan opt for independence in a January 2011 referendum. In addition, “the lives of ...
Mother Teresa’s Successor Reflects on Suffering
In an interview with Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Sister Mary Prema, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, reflects on suffering and on the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She says:
We can take ...
Islamic Insurgents Expel Christian Aid Groups From Southern Somalia
Al-Shabaab, an Islamic insurgent group that controls most of southern and central Somalia, has expelled three Christian aid groups from the southern part of the nation. “Acting as missionaries under the guise of humanitarian work, the organizations have been spreading their corrupted ...
Feast Of Presentation Of The Lord, Day Of Consecrated Life
At 5.30 p.m. yesterday, Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Day of Consecrated Life, the Pope presided at second Vespers in the Vatican Basilica, in the presence of numerous members of institutes for consecrated life and societies of apostolic life. In the course of the ...
The History Of The Universe From Atoms To Galaxies
"An exhibition which recounts the history of the universe, from the particles which make up the atoms in our bodies to distant galaxies". With these words, pronounced during a press conference held this morning in the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Jose Gabriel Funes S.J., director of the ...
We Must Learn To Have Greater Trust In Divine Providence
This morning in the Paul VI Hall the Holy Father received thousands of pilgrims from around the world in his weekly general audience. As part of a series of catecheses dedicated to the prayers pronounced by Christ, he focused his remarks on Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Blessed Hildegard Burjan: Mother And Politician
Yesterday afternoon in Vienna, Austria, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, archbishop of that city, presided at a Mass of thanksgiving for Sunday's beatification of Hildegard Burjan in the cathedral of St. Stephen. In his remarks following the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Benedict XVI had reminded ...
