During the time of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, the two seers, Lucy and her cousin Jacinta, would often converse about the visions. One day, Lucy visited her cousin as she was deep in thought. When Lucy asked … Continue reading
Why Wars Endanger Souls According to Saint Jacinta
March 20, 2018 | Francis Slobodnik 
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What Does a Society Based on Faith and Charity Look Like?
October 5, 2017 | John Horvat II
Historian Dr. Andrew Willard Jones has managed to write a fascinating new book about medieval Christendom that discusses the amazing social relationships that brought individuals and families together as a people. This perspective is well presented in a brilliant defense … Continue reading
A Brilliant Defense of Christendom
September 12, 2017 | John Horvat II
Many believe that Christendom was a rigid and brutal order. In medieval times, we are told that tyranny ruled, and the Church and the nascent State were constant rivals in the pursuit of dominance. So many modern historians have cynically … Continue reading
Saint Jacinta Marto, a Patron Saint for Meditating on Hell?
June 26, 2017 | Rex Teodosio
The most impressive picture of the three seers of Fatima is the one taken soon after they had the vision of Hell. Saint Jacinta’s aspect, her gaze in particular, seems to churn with grave considerations. Hell: A Secret of Fatima … Continue reading
Is It Immodest to Wear Deliberately Ripped Clothes?
June 2, 2017 | John Horvat II 
Perhaps one of the more sensitive personal issues you can raise with people is that of dress. How you dress has become a purely personal affair. Most are left to their own opinion as to what is appropriate. There are, … Continue reading
Saint Joan of Arc Was a Knight, Not a “Knightess”
May 28, 2017 | Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
All this is very beautiful, but there is something even more beautiful that they asked me to make explicit. But what can I say? Infinite things are ineffable. The pulchrum [beauty] of an ideal is reflected in the soul of … Continue reading
Why Catholics Cannot be Silent about Scorsese’s ‘Silence’
January 11, 2017 | John Horvat II
In the history of the Church, many martyrs died for the Faith. Starting with Saint Stephen the Protomartyr shortly after the Resurrection, they were the first to be remembered, venerated for their public witness and raised to the altars with … Continue reading
The Miraculous Medal: Medal of Many Graces
November 27, 2016 | Armando Santos
The medal of Our Lady of Graces, more commonly known as the Miraculous Medal, is undoubtedly the most widespread medal of all times. It originated in France in 1830, having been revealed directly by Our Lady to Saint Catherine Labouré … Continue reading
The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved
November 27, 2016 | Saint Leonard of Port Maurice
EXCERPT FROM A SERMON BY SAINT LEONARD OF PORT MAURICE It is not vain curiosity but salutary precaution to proclaim from the height of the pulpit certain truths which serve wonderfully to contain the indolence of libertines. They are always … Continue reading
Ellen Organ and “Her Pope”: For Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven
November 19, 2016 | Norman Fulkerson
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 … Continue reading
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