From this Divine Heart three streams flow endlessly. The first is the stream of mercy for sinners; it pours into their hearts sentiments ...

Margaret Mary was born in the small Burgundian town of L’Hautecour in France, the fifth of seven children of Claude Alacoque, a notary,...

 Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who po...

Teresa was born in the medieval fortified town of Avila in Spain on March 28, 1515. At seven she and her brother Rodrigo, impressed by ...

by John Horvat II  This year we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal. The occa...

We cannot enter a house without first speaking to the porter. Similarly, we cannot enter heaven without calling upon the aid of the Bless...

The name of St. Callistus was made famous by the Roman cemetery along the Apian Way that he beautified while he was its papal-appoin...

HANOVER, Penn., Oct. 9, 2017 — Hundreds of thousands of Catholics prepare to pray the Rosary in public and beg God and the Blessed Mother...

As on the other occasions, the seers, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, first saw a bright light, and then they saw Our Lady over the hol...

The sun began to spin rapidly like a gigantic circle of fire. Then it stopped momentarily, only to begin spinning vertiginously again. It...

Edward the Confessor was the second son of King Ethelred II and his Norman wife, Emma. After King Ethelred's death, Emma married Ca...

In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick o...

Wilfrid was born in 634, the son of a nobleman. At odds with his stepmother, he was sent to the court of King Oswy of Northumbria, wher...

The Holy Ghost did not describe Mary in the Gospels but left it to you to picture her in your heart. In this way, you might comprehend t...

Christened Bibiana Antonia Emanuela, her parents were Francis Torres and Antonia Acosta, an exemplary Christian couple running a small ...

The apparitions of the Blessed Mother in Fatima, Portugal, May, 1917 to three children, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, were Gospel-like ...

The Holy Rosary, recited with the meditation on the sacred mysteries, is a sacrifice of praise to God for the great gift of our redemptio...

Francis Borgia belonged to one of the most prominent families of the kingdom of Aragon, a family that gave the Church two popes. His fa...

You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to...

The flourishing Church of Gaul, in present-day France, suffered terribly under the persecution of Emperor Decius, and Pope Fabian sent ...

The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure. St. Bernard of Clairvau x

Keyne was a princess, one of the...

The Blessed Virgin Mary first gave the Rosary to St. Dominic of Guzman in a vision in 1208, as he earnestly begged God for a solutio...

In the evening of our lives, we shall be judged by our love for God and neighbor. St. John of the Cross

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

As a mother feels no disgust in dressing the sores of her child, so Mary, the heavenly infirmarian, never refuses to care for sinners who...

Bruno, of a prominent family of Cologne, was born in this ancient city around the year 1030. A promising scholar, he studied at the ...

  * * * * * * * * * * * * *  NINE FIRST FRIDAYS DEVOTION When Our Lord appeared to Saint Margaret Mary in 1673, He pr...

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of mise...

Called “the second founder of the Dominicans”, Raymond della Vigna was born in Capua of a prominent family in the kingdom of Naples....

Preach the Gospel at all times; if needed, use words. St. Francis of Assisi

Francis was born in Assisi, a charming hill town in the Italian region of Umbria. His father, Pietro Bernardone, was a wealthy cloth me...

Centuries ago, in Toledo, Spain, there lived a Cistercian nun called Mary. Being at the point of death, the Blessed Mother appeared to ...

Prudence has two eyes, one that foresees what one has to do, the other that examines afterward what one has done. St. Ignatius Loyola

Born into an illustrious and influential family, Thomas was the son of William de Cantelupe, a minister to King John, and Millicent (or ...

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate is their consciousness of the Presence of God. St. John Vianney

The existence of angels is a dogma of our Catholic Faith, and is abundantly documented in Sacred Scriptures and Catholic Tradition. An ...

The goal of all our undertakings should be not so much a task perfectly completed as the accomplishment of the will of God . St. Thérèse...

Marie-Françoise Thérèse Martin was born on January 2, 1873 in the town of Alençon in French Normandy. Her parents were Louis Martin, a ...

Did you know that the Blessed Virgin Mary, embarked on a sea voyage in her lifetime? Though this information does not come to us by way ...

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, b...

St. Jerome is a Father and Doctor of the Church who is best known for his compiling of the Vulgate version of the Catholic Bible, now...

St. Raphael is first mentioned in the Book of Tobit, where he appeared disguised in human form to Tobias, son of the blind man Tobit, a...