“This kind of demon cannot be cast out except by prayer and fasting.” – Jesus, Matthew 17.21 Cardinal Robert Sarah only recently became known on the international stage. A holy, courageous man who can articulate the faith with love and clarity, Cardinal Sarah was a major player in the recent...
The partially incorrupt body of Padre Pio has arrived to Rome for the first time ever alongside that of another friar, St. Leopold Mandic, as a special initiative for the Jubilee of Mercy. Urns containing the relics of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina and Saint Leopold Mandi arrived to Rome’...
Pope Francis recently had a brief audience with Leonardo DiCaprio at the Vatican. And the meeting had some pretty interesting moments. First off, DiCaprio immediately kissed the papal ring upon entering the room and greeted the pontiff in Italian. He then gave the Pope a book of art as a...
You’ve probably heard the basic story by now: buses full of students heading home from the March for Life in Washington D.C. got stuck on a highway because of a blizzard, and while they were waiting they constructed an altar out of snow and held Mass on the...
The martyrdom of a 16th-century Samurai who died for his Catholic faith was beatified in Feb. 2017, making the Japanese warrior one among nine other causes that advanced toward sainthood. Takayama Ukon was born in 1552 in Japan during the time when Jesuit missionaries were becoming introduced within the country....
When I first learned of the case for canonization of Louis and Zelie Martin, the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, I was very intrigued. This couple both wanted to be religious, but met each other and got married instead. They had nine children together, lost four of them at...
