On the first Easter Sunday, the day when Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He made Himself known on six occasions. The great Benedictine Abbot Dom Gueranger refers to the six incidents as “apparitions” and he supplies extremely valuable commentaries … Continue reading
The experience is probably a common one. You find yourself out in public and see a person from the back or side and say to yourself, “Hey, that’s Mike! (or Sarah, Ted, Mary, etc.),” only to discover when the person … Continue reading
Why even raise such a point? I think it was the skeptical father of Jules Lacassagne, who was cured at Lourdes, whom Franz Werfel, in his Song of Bernadette, has saying, “If miracles can happen, let them.” Yes, “let them!” … Continue reading
LifeSiteNews, Diane Montagna: The parish priest who discovered 40 ‘miraculously’ preserved consecrated hosts in a tabernacle retrieved from the rubble 16 months after a devastating earthquake hit central Italy, has said the hosts are now being exposed for Eucharistic adoration. Story … Continue reading
I intend to find out more about this miracle. If anyone beats me to it, please comment. Aleteia, Philip Kosloski: During the 15th century torrential rain fell on the French city of Avignon. The Sorgue and Rhône rivers continued to … Continue reading
LifeSite News, Maike Hickson: There are still many Catholics who do not know “the greatest miracle we have,” in the words of St. Padre Pio. He was referring to the Holy Face of Manoppello, the Volto Santo, which is wondrously to … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Francis Phillips: There is an unusual exhibition being held at St Joseph’s church in Thame, Oxfordshire, at the moment. Organised by Anna Johnstone, a local parishioner, it is a display of 60 panels of the Eucharistic miracles of … Continue reading
Saint Benedict Center’s twentieth annual conference is now history, and by all accounts it went well. There were many converts and reverts to the Faith present, and there were even some non-Catholics in attendance. (See this picture, worth more than … Continue reading
One Billion Stories, Seth DeMoor: It was 1949, in Denver Colorado, during the Polio epidemic when Mary Jane was stricken with bulbar polio, at that time a deadly disease. She was placed in a large machine called an “iron lung” … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Father Dwight Longenecker: A verse in the epistle to the Hebrews asserts that faith is “the substance of things hoped for – the evidence of things not seen.” The resurrection of Jesus Christ is an event forever hoped … Continue reading
The Holy Father has recently made statements about Medjugorje that have got people talking. Now, these negative statements by the Holy Father have another side to them, as he also made remarks about the possible legitimacy of the earliest messages … Continue reading
The Eponymous Flower: Abuna Nirwan [Abuna, literally means “our father”] is a Franciscan from Iraq. Before his ordination he had completed a medical examination. When he went to the Holy Land in 2004, the Dominican Women of the Rosary gave him a relic and a … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Joseph Pronechen: Several years ago Carl Malburg had the privilege of speaking with a woman who was present in Fatima at the Miracle of the Sun. But what she really wanted to tell him about was the … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Joseph Pronechen: We know that at Fatima during the apparition on October 13, 1917, after the miracle of the sun, our Blessed Mother appeared again but joining her this time was St. Joseph holding the Child Jesus. … Continue reading
TFP: In 1842, a 28-year-old French Jew named Alphonse Ratisbonne was visiting Rome. He was the youngest son of an important banking family in Strasbourg, a close relation of the Rothschilds. As often happens with European Jews, a family takes … Continue reading
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