St. Nicholas Novena: Table of Contents Many children learn of St. Nicholas through the tradition of Santa Claus, but the bishop and saint has inspired the faith life of adult Christians for 2000...
“How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it.” – St. Jerome Guardian Angel Prayers – Table of Contents Many believers are familiar with the...
Prayers for the Dead Table of Contents: “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo...
Measures such as stripping Burke of his Roman digs and cutting off his housing stipend are therefore be tough to justify as necessary, especially as punishment for promotion of “disunity” in the...
After announcing the cancellation of his trip to Dubai this week for a high-profile United Nations climate summit, Pope Francis, who is suffering from a mild flu, on Wednesday kept major appointments...
Pope Francis met Tuesday with a group of clerical sexual abuse victims from the French diocese of Nantes, a public appointment Francis kept despite a lingering bacterial infection that is causing...
As the case of famed Slovene priest and artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik continues to perplex Catholics around the globe, experts have warned that a perceived gap in canon law is preventing him and...
On Monday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis is receiving antibiotic treatment for an inflammation of his lungs, and that while he is in good condition, many of his commitments in the coming...
Expectant waiting. This is a notion– when considered through the lens of modernity– that seems like a foreign concept from the days of yore. The world is available at the slight extension of the...
The following is an excerpt from 12 Rules For Manliness | Where Have All the Cowboys Gone Be Dangerous – Make a Stand “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” 1 Cor 16:13 “
Advent: the season most Catholics would like to honor more appropriately but find it difficult to do so with the commercial Christmas creeping in all around. But when we do celebrate Advent it is...
You could listen to Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey to get you in the Christmas spirit. That might get you into a hot cocoa and snow angels mood, but “All I Want for Christmas is You” won’t prepare...
In my new book, When the Sickle Swings: Stories of Catholics Who Survived Communist Oppression, I document the testimonies of heroic Catholics who kept the faith despite persecution by hostile...