Previously, we explored the question of whether prior to Vatican II there was a doctrine that nation states must confess the ...

Do you ever feel like the Church is divided into two or three eternally warring camps? The liberal, social justice Catholics – who love guitars and wavery-voiced, aging hippies in the choir and focus ...

Protestant apologists will often pose this question to Catholics: If your Church is really infallible, why does it not just interpret every last verse of Scripture for us? It has had two thousand ...

The Book of Revelation is the most mysterious book of the Bible. The prophetic book is encrypted with many codes and riddles from the Old and New Testaments. Christians have been interpreting this ...

“One day, through the rosary and the scapular, Our Lady will save the world.” ~St. Dominic Our Lady is forever encouraging her children to pray the rosary. At each apparition, she calls on us to make ...

In 1 Corinthians 15:45, St. Paul compares Jesus to Adam, Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. This is one of those very simple ...

Saint Paraskeva is a mystery. There are at least three saints named Paraskeva (or Paraskevi) in the Catholic Church; and though they have distinct feast days and devotions, oftentimes, these Paraskeva ...

“In prayer you become one with the source of our true light – Jesus Himself.” Pope Saint John Paul II I never had much of an intentional prayer life outside of the rosary until this year, when I ...

Do you never feel forgiven no matter how many times you confess your sins? Do you obsess over blasphemous thoughts that invade your mind against your will? Do you agonize about whether or not ...

It could have been a sun spot, an air lens, some turbulent clouds, or maybe even eye tricks. The skeptic Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and a Research Fellow ...

Sister Christina Marie Neumann, a Franciscan sister serving in Grand Forks, North Dakota, works at St. Anne’s Guest Home for the elderly and is an active blogger at Our Franciscan Fiat. She offers a ...

Spiritual warfare existed before God created man, male and female, in His own image and likeness. Prior to creation, there was a war in the heavens among God’s other creatures called angels. They are ...