According to stats on the Catholic Church in the United States, there are 74.3 million Catholics in the US. There are an additional 30 million who self identify as former Catholics. Of the 74.3 million, only 23% go to Mass on any kind of regular basis. Yes, only...
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos died last month at the age of 88. Towards the end of his life he was a controversial figure for his handling of the Church’s sex abuse crisis and for some missteps in his work to regularize SSPX. But as a pastor in Colombia he...
Praise the Lord! Landslides can be extremely destructive. Which is why when one started on the side of a mountain in Valle Spluga in Italy heading toward a historic church, things looked pretty bad. But amazingly, even though around 7500 cubic meters of rock fell off the mountain and enveloped...
So maybe you were bored one night and decided to watch Ancient Aliens or another one of these documentaries about extra-terrestrials. A lot of their claims are just silly, but maybe you perked up when you saw them claim that medieval Catholic art – including paintings of Jesus and Mary – depict...
UPDATE: A reader says that the deer may have been placed inside the cathedral for a movie. This is funny! So a wild stag (male deer), big antlers and everything, somehow made its way into the Catholic Church of Saint Eustace in France recently, and someone caught it on video...
Very interesting! In the video below, you see something pretty out of the ordinary: a giant-sized statue of what appears to be Our Lady of Fatima being explored by scuba divers deep under the ocean. So how did it get there? And why? It’s actually a pretty clever reason....
