References:I rely significantly on the following sources/references:1.Mary in the Redemption, by Adrienne Von Speyr (Ignatius Press). 2.True Devotion to Mary, by Saint Louis de Montfort (TAN Books). 3.Ignatius Catholic Bible Study,The Gospel of Luke(Ignatius Press). 4.Documents of Vatican ...
Cardinal Wojtyła was elected on the third day of the conclave and adopted the name of his predecessor in tribute to him. John Paul II is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. John Paul II significantly improved the Catholic Church's...
As Chesterton so eloquently put it: “The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” I hope your search for truth once again leads you back. A last thought: Today is the feast of ...
The saint born Bogdan Mandić grew up in a large family in a town in what is now Montenegro. Many of the people he knew were members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and he felt a strong desire to play a role in reconciling the centuries-long schism between it and the Catholic Church....
My ‘friend’ also told me at least ten times that he was a devout Catholic who ‘had the Sacred Heart of Jesus’, each time pulling a crucifix from around his neck to kiss the image of the broken Body of Jesus depicted as still hanging dead on a Cross. ...
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour provides the glorious antithesis: directed by Vicky Featherstone, adapted by Lee Hall from Alan Warner’s novel ‘The Sopranos’, it follows six Catholic school girls from Oban on a day trip to Edinburgh for a choir competition. Thy are warned by Sister that ...
As the Church journeys through the Easter Season, we continually celebrate Jesus’s Resurrection. But it’s important to keep in mind that the point of this joy is the feast celebrated at Easter’s end: the holy feast of Pentecost. Pentecost, celebrated on the fiftieth and final day of the...
) created by Romans some two thousand years ago, then gutted by the Catholic Church for their own purposes in the late Renaissance, and now houses the tombs of the modern, unified Italian kings. Rome is an incredible place in that right next to a 20thcentury monument lies the excavated ...
Catholic Public Domain VersionSo may I come to you with joy, through the will of God, and so may I be refreshed with you.New American Bibleso that I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be refreshed together with you.New Revised Standard Versionso that by God’s will ...
He introduced in Monza the French Nuns of the Good Shepherd, and created the Circle of St. John the Baptist for the Catholic youth of the city. He produced many publications in literature and ascetical theology, wrote the biographical notes of many confreres, composed a variety Sacred Dramas,...