by Norman Fulkerson December 23, 2023 And therefore a Santa Claus! It has become a custom for practically every newspaper in America to reprint, during the Christmas season, the marvellous editorial, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” Since it first appeared in 18971, it has become an indelible part of the Christmas tradition in that...

Mount Carmel in Our Times Mount Carmel is the biblical site where the prophet Elias battled the 450 priests of Baal in a public spiritual contest which led to their defeat and ruin as Scriptures aptly recorded. (1 Kings 18:19-40). It was also here where Elias sent his servant seven times to the mountaintop to...

The loyalty of the Irish people to the Faith and to the Holy See is the great monument to St. Patrick, their national Apostle.

Alphonse Ratisbonne was a young Jew from a family of well-established bankers in Strasbourg, France. He also was socially prominent due to his wealth and blood-ties to the Rothschilds.

Our spiritual life is the life of grace within us; through it we become children of God. For our spiritual life to be preserved and to develop, a series of actions are required that constitute the life of piety. How must that life of piety be? What deviations must be avoided? These are the problems...

This is the true story of a Marine wounded in Korea in 1950. Writing to his mother, he told her of a fascinating encounter he experienced in the war. Father Walter Muldy, a U.S. Navy chaplain who spoke to the young Marine and his mother as well as to the outfit commander, always affirmed the...

The Rosary — as spiritual weapon against evil — has a very long and precious history. In twelfth and thirteenth century France, a group of heretics known as the Albigensians was destroying the minds of the Catholic laity with its erroneous ideas. The Albigensians’ teachings encouraged suicide, many times by self-induced starvation, because they believed...

"[Jesus] does not call those who are worthy, but those He chooses to call."

I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and...

First, go to Mass. It is on the eve of a holy day of obligation and Mass can prepare us to celebrate the feasts that follow as originally intended. Remember Halloween was originally a cycle of holy days that went from the eve of All Saints Day to All Souls Day. Second is to pray...