In order to be bronzed, all one has to do is stand in the sun. The rest is just a question of time; eventually, the sun’s rays will achieve their effect. But the soul can also be bronzed. All one ...
There is no greater joy in life than that of bringing another child into the family. No consumer item, no professional career gives as much joy as the smile of a child gazing into the eyes of its mother. In deciding ...
On December 8, 1991, on the eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a Eucharistic miracle occurred at Our Lady’s shrine in Finca Betania, Venezuela. This is yet another clear sign given to us by Christ to strengthen our faith in ...
Jesus says: O soul immersed in darkness, despair not! All is not yet lost. Come and confide in your God, who is love and mercy. —But the soul, deaf to God’s appeal, sinks into still greater darkness. Jesus: My child, hear the ...
Alexandrina Maria da Costa’s journey to heaven was not unlike that of her contemporaries, Martha Robin of France and St. Faustina of Poland. It consisted in her voluntary acceptance of suffering out of love of the Eucharistic Christ. For a period ...
The liberals raised the slogan “separation of Church and State,” but in reality separation was not their political goal; their real goal was the subjugation of the Church to the modern (i.e. secular) State. State power—liberalism’s old love The plan ...
Pope Benedict XVI has constantly been warning us against the dictatorship of relativism dominating the politics and culture of the Western world; indeed, the phenomenon is nothing more than a continuation of the “culture wars” that have been waged in Europe since ...
Maria Teresa Carloni was one of the greatest mystics and stigmatists chosen and prepared by Jesus to carry out a great mission in His Church. She was born in 1919 in Urbania, in central Italy, to an aristocratic family in which ...
Since the dogma of the Holy Trinity escapes rational understanding, it raises natural barriers to any thinking person. Who thought it up and why? Would it not be easier to believe that God is One and not to delve into the question of whether ...
Nobel Prize laureate Alexis Carrel decided to cast off the straitjacket of atheism when at Lourdes he witnessed the miraculous healing of his patient who was dying of peritoneal tuberculosis. After his conversion, Alexis Carrel understood the truth of the texts of ...