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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 1st Sunday in Lent (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 ...
Lent, A Time To Shoulder Our Christian Responsibilities
During his general audience this morning, the Holy Father dedicated his catechesis to the subject of Lent (which begins today, Ash Wednesday), the period of forty days leading up to the Easter Triduum, memorial of the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Benedict ...
Pope Tells New Cardinals To Bear Witness To The Joy Of Christ's Love
This morning in the Vatican Basilica, Benedict XVI presided at a Eucharistic concelebration with the twenty-two cardinals created in yesterday's consistory. At the beginning of the ceremony, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, addressed a ...
Pope's Sadness At The Fire In The Prison Of Comayagua
Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. has sent a telegram, in the name of the Holy Father, to Bishop Roberto Camilleri O.F.M. of Comayagua, Honduras, for the fire which broke out in the city prison on 15 February, causing the deaths of 355 people and injuring scores of others. The ...
Pope Warns Against The Power Of Finance And Of The Media
Yesterday afternoon the Holy Father visited the Major Seminary of Rome for the occasion of the feast of its patroness, Our Lady of Trust, which falls on Saturday. The Holy Father visited the chapel before going on to meet with auxiliary bishops of Rome, superiors of diocesan seminaries and 190 ...
