Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. St. Robert Bellarmine

The Stigmatization of Saint Francis, by Rubens Early in August, 1224, Francis retired with three companions to “that rugged ...

Roberto Bellarmino was born into impoverished Tuscan nobility at Montepulciano on October 4, 1542. He was the third of ten children b...

In his book, The Secret of the Rosary , St. Louis de Montfort relates that Blessed Thomas of St. John was a great devotee of the Holy Ro...

We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in His holy tabernacle; let us open our hearts to Him;...

Cornelius was elected to the papal dignity during a time in which both the Church and civil society were in great turmoil. About the ...

We grow weary of sense goods when we possess them. Not so of spiritual goods. They do not diminish, they cannot be harmed, they give us...

September 15 is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows   Pray:   Novena to Our Lady of Sorrows About this day, Abbot Prosper Gué...

Contemporary man feels very much attracted to God’s mercy, more so than his forerunners in bygone eras. Man’s Smallness, God’s In...

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God. St. Anthony of Padua

With great clarity the Gospels show us how much our Divine Savior in His mercy pities our pains of body and soul. We need only to rec...

The vision of hell as described by Lucia dos Santos: Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. Plunged i...

John – later surnamed Chrysostomos, meaning “golden-mouthed” so called on account of his eloquence – was born in Antioch in Syria aro...

A crowd estimated at 20,000 observed atmospheric phenomena similar to those of the previous apparitions: the sudden cooling of the a...

“And the virgin’s name was Mary” (Luke 1:27). Let us also say a few words about this name, which means “star of the sea” and is most suit...

“God the Father gathered all the waters together and called them the sea – mare . He gathered all his graces together and called them M...

A man from New York who had fallen away from the Catholic Church and not gone to confession in years was met at a Fatima Home Visit ...

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer ...

After spending many years in the desert under the direction of St. Anthony, Paphnutius, the holy confessor of Egypt, was made...

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisi...

In the small Italian town of Sant’ Angelo, a couple prayed for a child at the shrine of St. Nicholas of Bari. They prayed for...

Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his li...

Peter was born in 1581 in Catalonia in Spain. He joined the Society of Jesus when he was twenty, and was sent to further his ...

The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was ren...

Many days passed before Almighty God finally completed the masterpiece of His creation. For nine months, the soul of Mary ha...

Click here and send Our Lady a White Rose to help alleviate her sorrows! Read:    Remembering Our Lady of Sorrows Th...

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. St. Ambrose of Milan

After the death of the Frankish king in 511, his realm was divided among his four sons. Born in 524, Clodoald was the youngest s...

We should all realize that, no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent,  when he could have...