CNA reports: U.S. Army chaplain Fr. Emil Kapaun’s cause for beatification is headed to Rome, an event the Diocese of Wichita celebrated with a July 1 Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Read full report here. You may … Continue reading
Category: Lives of the Saints
Patron Saint for the Impatient
Saint Expedite: A Real Saint? Some would claim, in answer to the above question, that Saint Expedite really did not exist. In reply to that claim, we need to point out that he is indeed found in the Roman Martyrology, … Continue reading
Ambassador Says Padre Pio Cured His Son
Rome reports: Fernando Sanchez is the ambassador of Costa Rica to the Vatican, but his story has nothing to do with his job. He says, his son is alive thanks to a miracle of Padre Pio. He talks about it … Continue reading
Pope Calls Croatians to Look to Blessed Cardinal Stepinac Prisoner for Fifteen Years Under the Communists
I wrote an article for our website in February 2008, Red is for Martyrdom, which featured a brief biography of six Cardinals who suffered torture and imprisonment under the Reds. Blessed Alojzije Stepinac was among them. Zenit News: Benedict XVI … Continue reading
Relics of 6 Mexican Martyrs Tour California: “See You in Heaven”
Father Miguel de la Mora de la Mora Father Miguel de la Mora de la Mora of Colima belonged to Council 2140. Along with several other priests, he publicly signed a letter opposing the anti-religious laws imposed by the government. … Continue reading
40,000 People, 4 Cardinals, 30 Bishops, 400 Priests Attend Beatification of Vocationist Founder
Catholic Culture and Zenit have posted information on this holy man and his order. I never heard of him or the Vocationist fathers. Sometimes I am amazed when God’s secret heroes suddenly appear in the limelight and are honored by … Continue reading
St. Patrick, From Shepherding Sheep As a Slave to Apostle of a Nation
Deacon Fournier has a wonderful article here on Saint Patrick in today’s Catholic Online website. I had forgotten that Patrick was not living the Faith when he was captured by Irish pirates, even though he had pious parents. He turned … Continue reading
The Saint and His Mountain: Brother André Bessette
[Review of Brother André: Friend of the Suffering, Apostle of Saint Joseph, by Father Jean-Guy Dubuc, C.S.C. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana] How we all rejoiced last October when Blessed Brother André was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. As … Continue reading
Pope Devotes Wednesday Address to Saint Francis de Sales
CNA reports: At the Wednesday general audience on March 2, Pope Benedict XVI discussed the life of St. Francis de Sales, a 17th century bishop and Doctor of the Church whose secret to holiness was his unreserved trust in God. … Continue reading
Pope Focuses Wednesday Address on Virtues of Jesuit Doctor, Saint Robert Bellarmine
CNA reports: St. Robert Bellarmine’s life and spirituality was the focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching during his weekly general audience Feb. 23. This Jesuit cardinal was remembered by the Pope for his great legacy of writings and teachings and … Continue reading
Biographers of Saints Who Were Saints
Today is the feast day of Saint Peter Damien who died in 1072. He was a Doctor of the Church, a cardinal, and a great reformer of the clergy and monastic life. Moral corruption was rampant among the clergy in … Continue reading
Pope Continues His Discourses on the Doctors of the Church: St. John of the Cross
Zenit News: Do medieval Spanish mystics, who are also lyric poets, have anything of use to say to the modern Catholic? Benedict XVI offered an affirmative answer to his own question today at the weekly general audience in Paul VI … Continue reading
Pope Benedict Speaks About St. Peter Canisius the “Second Apostle” of Germany
It was the Jesuit Doctor of the Church Saint Peter Canisius who replaced the Sentences of Peter Lombard with the Summa of Saint Thomas Aquinas as the preferred Theology book in the Catholic universities he was appointed to revitalize in … Continue reading
Glorious Ukrainian Martyrs, Victims of Communist Barbarity
Having just read on Zenit News website about the vocation surge in Ukraine — which, unfortunately, for half of those aspiring to the priesthood, is more than the seminaries can handle — I don’t know whether to weep or rejoice. … Continue reading