Natuzza Evolo, the famous Italian mystic and stigmatist (see issue twenty-three of LOA) had the unique charism of talking with souls from heaven and purgatory as well as damned souls whom God forced to speak about their eternal punishment. God bestowed ...
When we accept the truth about sex and human sexuality as revealed to us by God, when we undertake the daily effort of ordering our thoughts and conduct to this truth, we embark on the road to love, which has its source in God ...
Malcolm Muggeridge’s reception into the Catholic Church in 1982 made loud headlines in the mass media. He was one of Britain’s most famous journalists, a best-selling author, consummate satirist, and producer of some of the best television programs of the twentieth ...
The human heart is a battleground. It is the site of a perennial struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, life and death. On the one hand, we desire eternal happiness; on the other, we fall prey to temptations that present sin in such ...
Situated on three picturesque hills, the Tuscan city of Siena is famous throughout the world not only for her magnificent medieval architecture, her “piazza del Campo,” and her great saint, Catherine, but also for the Eucharistic miracle that has endured there ...
Natuzza Evolo never sought out contact with the dead on her own. It was God who decided when and which dead souls should meet her and convey their message through her. People flocked to her house to recite the rosary ...
Our time on earth is brief. It is now that we decide our eternity: either we choose the unimaginable happiness of everlasting love in Christ or we choose the horrific pain of eternal loathing. God reminds us of this truth through extraordinary ...
We have a choice of two paths: one that leads to the fullness of life in heaven and the other that leads to death everlasting in hell. It is up to us which of these paths we will take. “Before a man are life and ...
All those who practice any form of the occult do so in breach of the First Commandment. They break the bonds of life and love that unite them with God, and give themselves over to terrible enslavement by the powers of evil. ...
Married couples possess a marvelous treasure. That treasure is Jesus Christ in the sacrament of matrimony. They need to entrust all their problems to Jesus, since it is only by His strength that they will overcome them. Jesus will prevail over every crisis and work ...
In his encyclical Fides et ratio (Faith and Reason) and catechetical statements, St. John Paul II unmasks the false propaganda that tries to persuade society that the Christian belief in God is incompatible with science and reason; that atheism is ...
Jesus, ever present in the Eucharist, bids each of us to come to Him with all our problems. “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Mat 11: 28). In order to come to Jesus, we need first ...
Like other Eucharistic miracles that have occurred throughout the history of the Church, the miracle at Sokółka is a special revelation of the power of Almighty God who calls us all to conversion; it also serves us an object lesson. Through extraordinary signs ...
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matt 5: 8). It is this pure love, springing, as a gift from God, from the hearts of men and women, that enables us to experience—to see—God, who is ...
In October of 2008, an extraordinary event took place at St. Anthony of Padua parish church in Sokółka, Poland. A consecrated Host was transformed into a fragment of muscle tissue belonging to a living human heart suffering severe stress and on the point of death. Transformation of ...
To experience the all-powerful love of Jesus, make use of this most simple and effective of methods, which He Himself gave us: “The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is—trust. The more a soul ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lord God is one. He revealed himself to us as a perfect unity of three Divine Persons: the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We also know that the Son of God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity “for us ...
On September 18, 2010, the Holy Father Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal J. H. Newman, one of the most famous converts in the history of the Church. Newman was at once an intellectual and spiritual genius and a man of deep and humble faith. His ...