St. Catherine of Siena, co-patron of Europe
by Rev. Matthew Mauriello – Caterina di Benincasa was born on March 25, 1347 in Siena, Italy, to Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth dyer, and Lapa Piagenti, who was about 40 years old when she gave premature birth to twin daughters, Catherine and Giovanna. As a child, Catherine was so merry that the family would […]
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker proclaimed Christian ideal of work vs. Marxist view
by Donal Anthony Foley – The feast of St Joseph the Worker falls on May 1, this Saturday (also a First Saturday), following the Solemnity of St. Joseph, which we celebrated on March 19. This is a relatively modern feast day since it was only instituted in 1955, during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. […]
In the world, but not of the world
by David M. Carollo – The Easter season is a time ponder the fact that those who believe in the reality of the life of Christ and understand the Real Presence live in this world, but are not of the world. It is not possible to accept the truth of the Resurrection and the Real […]
The Hour of Mercy and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
by Larry Maginot – “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously” (Lk 2:48). These words of Our Lady spoken to the 12-year-old Jesus upon finding him in the Temple express the sorrowing anguish that filled the Immaculate Heart for the three days she and […]
Baptism and the Easter Vigil
by Donal Anthony Foley – This evening, after 40 days of Lenten preparation, we will celebrate Christ’s resurrection from the dead during the Easter Vigil. The vigil is more than just a celebration of the Resurrection, since it is also a time when those who are to be received into the Church are baptized. Even […]
The crucifixion of St. Jean Gabriel Perboyre
by Donal Anthony Foley – As we enter the Sacred Triduum, the most solemn time of the Church’s year, our focus turns increasingly towards the Passion and death of Christ, as we try to comprehend the extent of His sufferings and what it cost Him to redeem us. One way we can do this is […]
Dystopian nightmares or the message of Fatima
by David M. Carollo – In the 1960s and 70s, some saw the possibility that a totalitarian system which subjugated the masses could be installed here if we were not diligent. The attitude that “it could never happen here” was also bantered about. Those who were astute, however, knew better. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian expatriate […]
The consecration and our Lord’s promise: ‘The Immaculate Heart of Mary will save Russia’
by Barb Ernster On June 13, 1929, Sister Lucia had a vision of the Holy Trinity, known as the “Last Vision,” in the convent chapel at Tuy, Spain. Our Lady told her, “The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father in union with all the bishops of the world, to consecrate Russia […]
The Fatima Seers and Lent
by Donal Anthony Foley – Catholics are living through Lent this year at the same time the world is gradually coming to terms with the COVID 19 pandemic – a pandemic that has caused widespread problems for people across the globe. If we go back 100 years, the Spanish flu was likewise wreaking havoc around […]
The Seven Sorrows and Joys of St. Joseph
by Catherine Moran, Ph.D. – The origin of the practice of meditating on St. Joseph’s Seven Sorrows and Joys comes from a miraculous event involving two Franciscan Fathers. “Two fathers of the Franciscan order were sailing along the coast of Flanders, when a terrible tempest arose, which sank the vessel and its 300 passengers. The two […]
