The first Vatican Council (1869-1870) had a saint attending it, Antonio Maria Claret, the founder of the Claretian Order. Sad to say, the liberal views expressed openly by the Bishops in opposition to the doctrine of papal infallibility were so … Continue reading
When the Franciscan missionaries arrived from Mexico to evangelize the Indians north of the Rio Grande in the early sixteenth century, they discovered much to their astonishment that one of the tribes had been baptizing their children for generations. The … Continue reading
Though Ethan Allen of the famed Green Mountain Boys was an atheist, his daughter, Frances Allen, was the first United States citizen to become a nun.
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s immoral mistress, was so filled with diabolic hatred for Saint John Fisher, that after the king had ordered the holy Bishop decapitated, she took his head by the hair and slapped his face cutting her finger … Continue reading
Louis Ampere, the renowned physicist, whose discoveries in the field of electricity lent his name to the unit of measurement for an electric current (Amp.), said the Rosary faithfully every day before the Blessed Sacrament. In fact, the founder of … Continue reading
Steven Douglas, the famous Senator from Illinois who lost to Lincoln in the presidential race of 1860, was converted to the Catholic Faith by Father Damen, who gave the famous sermon: The One True Church.
There have been 321 cases of authentic stigmatization recorded. A stigmatist is one who by his close relation to the Crucified Jesus partakes visibly or invisibly of His Sacred Wounds. St. Francis of Assisi was the first stigmatist (though some … Continue reading
When Alexander the Great came with his army to conquer Jerusalem in 332 B.C., instead of slaughtering the leaders of the Jews because of their sworn loyalty to his enemy, Darius the Persian, this extraordinary man of war, a pagan, … Continue reading
The name of Jesus was given to three persons in the Old Testaments as a prefiguring of Christ Our Lord. First there was Joshua who, after the death of Moses, led the Israelites into the promised land. Joshua in Hebrew … Continue reading
The little town of Loretto in Western Pennsylvania, was founded in 1799 by a group of pious Catholic settlers under the guidance of a prince-priest, the Russian convert, Demetrius Gallitzin. As a boy Father Gallitzin knew no religion. His father, … Continue reading
In 1844, an organization of bigots, violently anti-Catholic, called the Know-Nothings, among many other acts of violence that they were guilty of, attacked and set fire to a poorly protected church in Philadelphia and burned down an Ursuline convent in … Continue reading
No one has ever been known to convert on the deathbed to any other religion than the Catholic Faith. Doesn’t that make sense if the True Faith is necessary for salvation?
In the eighth century of the Christian era most of the Jews who lived in Beirut, Lebanon, were converted to the Catholic faith by a miracle which became known all over the world, and which was one of the decisive … Continue reading
An editorial in the Boston Globe of December 19, puts our beloved founder, Father Leonard Feeney, in a very good light. Naturally, James Carroll, the Globe columnist, did not intend that; but in his piece, entitled “What would Cardinal Cushing … Continue reading
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