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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This is our own translation of the maltreated Wednesday Audience of His Holiness — BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Psalm 136, 1-6 Upon the rivers of Babylon Vespers – Tuesday fourth week 1. On this first Wednesday … Continue reading
News agency falsely reports statement concerning non-believers and salvation. Summary: Under the headline “Nonbelievers Too Can Be Saved, Says Pope,” Zenit International News Agency gave an indifferentist spin to Pope Benedict XVI’s Wednesday audience of November 30. “Nonbelievers Too Can … Continue reading
“Most beloved brothers, you have left the world behind and have taken refuge in God.” — from the profession ceremony On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, our community had the great joy of witnessing the religious profession of two brothers:
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