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, … Read more
It has been a year since the catastrophic tsunami that swept the coastlines of nations on the Indian Ocean. More recently, Americans are still reeling from a series of hurricanes that devastated the southern U.S. and particularly New Orleans. In the wake of these events, the polemic continues unabated between those who … Read more
“It was as if God had unleashed his anger on the people,” said an eyewitness of the tsunami that devastated the coastlines of eleven countries in South Asia and even East Africa. This lively impression of God’s wrath in action was precisely the point that most news reports and commentaries sought to … Read more