"All about me is darkness. I am praying for light.” AND "While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die."

A century ago, in 1921, there was an attack perpetrated against Our Lady of Guadalupe in the old basilica in Mexico City, in which the Marian image was protected by a crucifix. [...]

The gifts were customary at the time, but also had profound symbolism. [...]

How did the Wise Men follow “A Star” westward to Jerusalem and then, follow it south to Bethlehem? This movement of the magi's star is impossible. How can Christians argue against such a statement? [...]

200 years before her appearance in Mexico, Our Lady appeared on Mount Guadalupe in Spain. {...}

Greenery and plants surround us at Christmas time. The most common of these are the mistletoe, holly, poinsettia, and the Christmas wreath. Each have their own interesting history: [...]

By Pastor Rob Reid The brand-new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. [...]

Her father was well known.  She said, “My father would have shot me for what I have done.” [...]

On the 17th of December, 1899, the fast mail on the way from Bordeaux to Paris met with a collision. In the mail car was Gabriel Gargam, a 30-year-old post office express clerk. At the time of the wreck the train was going at the speed of fifty miles an hour. [...]

For a long time, the parish priest of Moncada in Spain had celebrated Mass without any scruples of conscience, when suddenly he became the prey of a violent doubt as to whether he had been rightly ordained. [...] Image from Clarion Herald, New Orleans: Sarah Bachemin’s acrylic painting – “Behold, the Lamb of God” – offers a breathtaking, “split-screen” interpretation of the Eucharist. The left half of the painting’s dominant figure depicts St. Joseph, dressed in a simple beige garment and lifting up his smiling baby, Jesus. The other half of the same figure shows a priest garbed in his distinctive green chasuble. Like St. Joseph, the priest also is busy “lifting up Jesus” – but in the form of the consecrated bread and wine.

TRUE STORY: A very remarkable incident took place in connection with the Blessed Sacrament.  A servant girl, who was bribed by some unbelievers, stole from the chapel [...]

It was the night of July 18th 1830. It was the city of Paris, France. Sister Catherine Laboure' was in her convent room at 11:30 at night when an angel appeared to her as a young boy. He said, “Come to the chapel.  The Blessed Virgin is waiting for you.” [...]

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence." So begins the popular poem known as Desiderata, [...]

GOD SAID: If you never felt pain, then how would you know that I'm a Healer? [...]

The year is 1576.  Seven Conceptionist nuns from Spain arrived in Quito, ECUADOR.  One of those who arrived was the 9-year-old niece of the Mother Superior.  Her name was MARIANA TORRES, and she was professed at age 15 and took the name MARIANA OF JESUS.  At age 30 she became the prioress and during her lifetime Our Lady visited her many times.  Our Lady gave her prophecies about the 20th century. [... ]

How a young Chinese girl inspired Archbishop Fulton Sheen to make a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament every day.   [...]

When the missionaries came to Arizona and New Mexico, they encountered a strange situation.  They were the first priests who had arrived in these areas.  Yet, they met Indians who knew the Catholic faith to some extent, and they wanted to be baptized. [...]

The Sanctuary of Sidi el Yamani in T’Zenin, Morocco, is covered with lots of clay because [...]

Nagasaki was the heart and soul of Catholicism in Japan since the 16th century.  Two thirds of the Catholics in Japan lived in this city. [...]

“One day a young couple came to our house and asked for me. They gave me a large amount of money. [...]