Our young saint lived in tumultuous times. The socialist government of Mexico was waging a bloody war against the Catholic Church, and fervent Catholics known as the Cristeros rose up to defend Christ the King. Their heroic resistance, La Cristiada, began in 1926. Background The Mexican constitution of 1917—socialist at its core—sparked this terrible conflict....
As on the other occasions, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta first saw a bright light and then they saw Our Lady over the holm oak. Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me? Our Lady: I wish to tell you that I want a chapel built here in my honour. I am the Lady of the...
The Catholic calendar reads: Saint Michael, Prince of the Heavenly Host fought the rebel angels in the heavenly battle. He continues to lead the battle to free us from the devil. Our guardian angels depend on him. He is the custodian angel of the Church and the one who presents the Eucharistic Oblation to the...
In 1917, in Fatima, Our Lady entrusted three Portuguese children with a message that opened horizons of tragedy but also of a sweet hope contained in the promise of the triumph of her Immaculate Heart. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira discovered the message of Fatima only many years later, finding in it the echo of the...
With great clarity the Gospels show us how much our Divine Saviour in His mercy pities our pains of body and soul. We need only to recall the awesome miracles He performed in His omnipotence in order to mitigate these pains. But let us never make the mistake of imagining that this combat against pain...
In 1974, I had the honour of being the first to sign a declaration published in a number of the main Brazilian dailies and reproduced in almost all the nations where the then eleven TFPs existed. Its title was The Vatican Policy of Détente with the Communist Governments – For the TFP: To Take No...
Hear the incredible story of Col. John Ripley, a model Catholic and Heroic Soldier. What is the key to the future of the Faith in Ireland: A return to Catholic Heroism. Talk by Mr Norman FulkersonAuthor of The American Knight Locations: Sat, 13th August, 17.30 – 19.00, Wynns Hotel, Abbey St., Dublin Mon, 15th August,...
“The camp offered a unique opportunity to acquaint myself with other Catholic boys as well as learn some of the truths of the Catholic faith that are so often forgotten. Namely, that the Catholic faith is manly, and also that bring part of the Church Militant, we have a sacred duty to defend the Church...
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (Exod. 20:14) “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.” (Luke 16:18) Since the family is the basic cell of society, when it is in crisis, all of society is dragged down with it. Today,...
This is a photo of the great Saint John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Congregation. Note his eminently priestly expression, but that of a man of the people. No one would imagine that he was born from a high social class. He is a peasant who became a priest, and that was a glory to...
