Spirituality

Nowadays, it feels romantic to think of the banishment of religion. However, without religion, morality has no firm foundation, no supernatural content and context and can most likely produce mischief-making...

During the night of January 2-3, 1873, at 42, St. Blaise Street in Alecon, France, the ninth and last child of Louis Joseph Stanislaus Martin and Marie Zelie Guerin was...

A couple of weeks ago, a friend simply wrote on her Facebook page: “Where did we get the word Holy Ghost from?” And this generated some philosophical cum theological uproar...

Estelle Faguette, a thirtytwo-year-old servant, was at point of death. She had suffered with a tumour for ten years and now tuberculosis was dealing the final blow. As she was...

In the Middle Ages, Catholic theology concentrated mostly on Christ’s passion; at the side of the Man of Sorrows, however, was the Sorrowful Mother, sharing His suffering. The Gospel of...

“An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under...

For many centuries, one of the sacramentals in the tradition of the Church has been the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The word “scapular” comes from a...

There are at least two celebrations that we observe in Corpus Christi. First and foremost, we celebrate the truth of our faith that Jesus is present with us in a...

Beginning in the 7th century and for a thousand years that followed, there was a great threat to Christian civilization, that of the Moslem sword. Setting out in the year...

The journey of the Eucharistic celebration dates back to Christ Himself. He handed the bread to His disciples so that they may eat it and continue the celebration in His...