Catholic Herald.co.uk: An American priest who was paralysed from the chest down has started to walk again after praying to the 19th-century Blessed, Father Francis Xavier Seelos.

Read full report here.

A Reluctant Sinner: A special Mass to celebrate a possible Eucharistic miracle was offered yesterday in the Polish town of Sokolka (Sokółce). The celebrations marked the official scientific confirmation of the fact that a small piece of a consecrated host, which had been accidentally dropped on the floor in 2008, is now tissue from muscle belonging to a human heart. It seems that most Poles, including the local Archbishop of Bialystok, Edward Ozorowski, have concluded that the Sacred Heart of Jesus has indeed become truly visible in this host, even if the Holy See is yet to confirm whether or not the “miracle of Sokolka” is supernatural in origin. More on this here.

Monsignor Charles Pope has penned a concise summary of recent anti-Catholic and anti-natural law actions of the nanny state:  If You Find A Good Fight, Get In It! A similar clarion call for political action can be found on the Mass Resistance site, which cites an address of a British Pro-Family barrister to the effect that America is in the same place the U.K. was fourteen years ago vis-a-vis the homosexual agenda, and we need to fight while we still have time. (With the aggressive queering of the military, one wonders if it’s not a bit late for that.) Read More »

CatholicOnline: Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was 13 years old when she collapsed with a brain hemorrhage in February of 2009. At the hospital, her parents called for a Catholic priest to baptize her before she died. As the holy water touched her forehead, Lucy’s arm shot up in the air and within 24 hours she was taken off life support. Read full report here.

July 16 is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. There is something particularly wonderful about this feast, a double major liturgically, which makes it so embraceable for the faithful children of Mary. Perhaps it is the appealing simplicity of it, the maternal tenderness of it, as well as the magnanimous generosity of the promise. I used to be astonished when I was young to see how much the Italians loved this day. The parishes dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel had the most exciting festivals, some of them lasting three days, to celebrate the devotion. Read More »

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 in his book “Birth of a spiritual child: Our history with Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.” More here.

Reading in the Book of Acts about the events of Pentecost, three physical things accentuate the spiritual. In fact, without them, the coming of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles would be impossible to imagine, being, as we are, creatures of sense: mighty wind, tongues of fire, and speaking miraculously in foreign languages. Read More »

LifeNews: An Australian woman who was declared “brain dead” regained consciousness after weeks of fighting doctor recommendations that her ventilator be shut off, according to a report in the Northern Territory News yesterday. Read this wonderful story here.

The Vatican is investigating whether the healing of a boy in Washington in 2006 is a miracle attributable to the intercession of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. More on this here.

CatholicHerlad.co.uk: A man with a paralysed left leg has completed a 1,000-mile hike to Santiago de Compostela after being cured at Lourdes, it has been reported. Television repair man Serge François, 40, said he felt a warm glow spread down his herniated leg during a visit to Lourdes in 2002. Read more about this here.