“Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) St. Paul the Apostle

William, Archbishop of York, is a rather intriguing saint due to the conflicts surrounding his “on again, off again” reign as archbis...

While many Fatima devotees know the salient aspects of Our Lady’s message and the various events surrounding the apparitions, certain ...

“ I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the Firs...

Anthony Maria Gianelli was born in 1789 into a middle-class family living near Genoa in the north of Italy. As a child, people were oft...

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God. Bl. Robert Southwell

Norbert was born in the year 1080 in Xanten, Germany, to a noble and wealthy family. Norbert lived a life of pleasure until one day he ...

* by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira A friendly reader asked me to explain why the Church has been fought so fiercely throug...

In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Ou...

Boniface was born Winfrid around the year 680 to a respected and noble English family, and it was to his father’s great displeasure tha...

Young Lady Jane was as sweet as she was lovely. Being the daughter of a prince, the whole world lay before her, full of possibilities...

The Father takes pleasure in looking upon the heart of the most Holy Virgin Mary, as the masterpiece of His hands; for we always like ou...

On October 15, 1563 Francis Caracciolo was born into a noble Italian family. When he was twenty-two, he developed a skin disease simila...

The particular object of this devotion  [to the Sacred Heart of Jesus] is the immense love of the Son of God which induced Him to deliv...

Charles Lwanga was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who were converted from paganism by the Society of Missionaries of Africa. Chief o...

The Five First Saturdays devotion is one of the principal points of the Fatima message. It centers on the urgent need for mankind t...

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely. St. Thomas Aquinas

Although not much is known about these two early martyrs, we do know that Marcellinus was a priest in Rome and Peter was an exorcist ...

“I promise you, in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all powerful love will grant to all those who receive Holy Communion on the...

  Hope of a Hopeless World If there is an age whose sole hope lies in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is our own. The evils committ...

Charity lays down no conditions, makes no reservations; it thinks no longer of self, lives no longer for self; it is a stranger to itself ...

Íñigo was born in the eleventh century and was reportedly a native of Bilbao in northern Spain. Early in life he was drawn to a life of...

The saints in heaven, seeing God face to face, love Him above all things, because they see with the most perfect evidence that God is bet...

The feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to her cousin St. Elizabeth was established throughout the Church in the thirteenth or f...

I would rather die than do a thing which I know to be a sin. St. Joan of Arc

In the marvelous book, City of God, in which Maria of Agreda, a nun and mystic, writes the life of the Blessed Mother, as shown her in ...

Joan of Arc’s story is nothing but extraordinary. Born in Domremy, Champagne, in 1412, she was a peasant girl who received from on high...

by Norman Fulkerson   Click here to order your Free St. Michael Shield Medal In 2006, Ramadi, Iraq was considered the most dangerou...

He remains among us until the end of the world. He dwells on so many altars, though so often offended and profaned. St. Maximilian Kol...

William Arnaud, a Dominican, and companions were sent to Toulouse in the South of France by Pope Gregory IX to combat the Albigensian h...

In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips; never suffer it to leave y...

One day, when Saint Mechtilde was praying and trying to think of some way in which she could express her love of the Blessed Mother bett...

Germanus, one of the glories of the Church in France, was born near Autun, about 496. From his early youth he was exceedingly pious, ne...