On August 4, 1903 Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elevated to the Chair of Saint Peter and took the name Pius X. Twenty days later William and Mary Organ welcomed their fourth child into the world at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Ireland. They named her Ellen but she would eventually be known … Read more
It has been some time since a powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck close to Norcia in Italy. The disaster on October 30 shocked the world as it destroyed the Basilica of St. Benedict that was built over the birthplace of its namesake. It left only the façade standing. While this frightening quake left many people … Read more
At the time of the Fatima apparitions, no water sprung from the ground, as it did in Lourdes, France. Nevertheless, the lack of water in and around Fatima was a very real problem and a difficult one to solve. That difficulty was exacerbated by the nature of the limestone and porous terrain … Read more
St. Louis de Montfort Academy and I had the enormous privilege of assisting the nuns of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador. We helped transfer the incorrupt body of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres to a splendid new sarcophagus. This magnificent work of … Read more
On July 16, 2016, the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 5,167 Public Rosary Rallies were held across America in support of the nation’s police officers. This was the initial response of America Needs Fatima members and supporters to the senseless attacks that resulted in death and injury to several … Read more
From the patience which the martyrs showed during their tortures, we should learn to suffer with holy resignation the crosses and afflictions of this life; poverty, sickness, persecution, insults, injustice, and all other evils, are but trivial when compared with their sufferings. The reflection that it was the will of God that … Read more
Looking at the man in this photograph, the immediate impression is that he is a person of dignity. He sits upright with a bearing that belongs to old world diplomats. His facial expression is serious, determined and yet calmly tinged with charity. His eyes simultaneously suggest conviction and gentleness, intensity and kindness. … Read more
“Long Live Christ the King!” Young Mexican, Martyr of Communism, Authentic Model of a Catholic Hero “Long live Christ the King!” Such was the cry that opened the gates of Heaven and eternal glory to many blessed during the Catholic resistance in the Mexico of the twenties. The Cristero martyrs shouted it … Read more
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 … Read more
Given the serious reservations and objections of many key Church public figures and Catholic layman to the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia and given the growing confusion it is sowing in people’s minds regarding family moral issues, the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute (IPCO), the American TFP’s sister organization in Brazil, felt compelled … Read more