“During the last two days Jesus has been telling me after Holy Communion: ‘My daughter, the devil will soon wage a great war against you,’” St. Gemma Galgani wrote to a priest. “These words I hear in my heart continuously. Please pray for me.” St. Gemma Galgani was a late...
It was in 1958 that Catholic author Flannery O’Connor took a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, where the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary a century before. Lourdes is internationally renowned as a healing shrine. Often it is bathing in the waters of Lourdes that...
William Friedkin, who directed the the horror classic The Exorcist (1973), says he was allowed to personally witness and film a real exorcism at the Vatican in May – and that it had a huge impact him: “I don’t think I will ever be the same having seen this astonishing...
An icon of St. John the Baptist in Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Homer Glen, IL is apparently miraculously producing oil – and some say it has healing powers. “I see a blessing from God,” Fr. Sam Dimitriou, pastor of the church, told CBS Chicago. “There’s a sweet fragrance that’...
There’s a demon that specializes in attacking the family, said exorcist César Truqui, a priest who participated in a course on exorcism held in Rome last year. Fr. Truqui warned that everything that is harming the family, including divorce, pleases the devil. Speaking to the Italian weekly Tempi in...
Has the Vatican really released the full text of the Third Secret of Fatima? Or are they holding something back – potentially something that calls into question the wisdom of the Second Vatican Council? That’s the question raised by a recent controversy between the Vatican and the Catholic website OnePeterFive....
