The Blessed Mother has numerous titles to extoll her divine attributes. Many derive from Church-approved apparitions. In England there is only one title to honor Mary based on an apparition-related occurrence in 1061. It was then that Lady Richeldis de Faverches prayed to God asking how she should honor…
This year, May 13 is both the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima and Mother’s Day. In our family, my husband Mark and our son Jacob celebrate birthdays on the same day. It’s especially significant to Mark and me because at that time, we did not understand Church teaching on life and were contemplating no more…
Ruth Knutson is the wife to Dr. Ron Knutson, an anesthesiologist in Bismarck, ND. Together they have five children. No one would suspect such a poised and joyful person to have had a childhood full of extreme abuse and neglect. But Ruth points out, “It’s what we do with the rest of it that is our story.”
Starbucks has been in hot water lately. Two black men had asked to use the restroom at a Starbucks while they waited for a friend. The manager told them it was for paying customers only and called police who proceeded to arrest the men for trespassing. Since not all suspected loiterers get arrested at Starbucks, people…
Looks like we missed the rapture. I hate it when that happens! Christian numerologist David Meade was quite certain that on April 23 the end times would commence, ushering in a rapture, a 7-year tribulation, and a 1000-year reign by Christ. You would think that these occasional would-be prophets would know that “of that day and hour no…
Women are not just like “one of the guys” and that is our strength. Evil forces within our culture belittle the beauty of our creation and have brainwashed many to deny who God made us to be. Jesus told us that the greatest among us would serve the rest, (Matthew 23:11) yet society has come to…
While we continue to hear about fallen-away Catholics, more than 30,000 will enter the Church during the Easter Vigil Masses in the U.S. this Saturday. That’s enough for a small city!
At the Last Supper, there was a mystery among the apostles. When Jesus said: “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me,” the apostles were mystified. “Surely you don’t mean me, Lord?” they asked.
Saint Padre Pio bore the stigmata—the wounds of Christ—on his hands and feet for fifty years. The twentieth-century Italian Franciscan Capuchin priest also had the gifts of reading souls in the confessional, visions, bilocation, healing, and prophecy. At the time of his death at the age 81 in 1968, thousands from…
By writing to the Georgetown president who publicly honored a rabid pro-abortion US senator and also by praying for him, I desire to perform a spiritual work of mercy. I encourage everyone to be bold, be prayerful, and to love much—both God and neighbor—as you shine your Catholic light before all.
Here we go again: Mean, bad, unchristian Catholic school officials fire much-loved teacher. Jocelyn Morffi, the Miami first grade teacher of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School was terminated upon returning from her February 3, wedding to another woman. She wrote on her Instagram account: “In their eyes I’m not the right kind of Catholic…
When Blessed Pope Paul VI wrote his encyclical Humanae Vitae on July 25, 1968, he neither claimed to be a prophet or saint. Time has proven him to be both. His predictions of what marriage and society would suffer if the use of contraception became widespread has come to pass. And now, a second miracle has cleared…