Some years ago I had an experience with the sacrament of penance that I will never forget. It was a Saturday morning, and my parish ...

One of the beautiful and bright-shining stars in the firmament of hope for our desperate days is this couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, and this ...

When the Pope’s Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti, unexpectedly granted me the faculty of exorcist, I did not guess the immensity ...

The Second Vatican Council began its work with deliberation on the “Schema on the Sacred Liturgy”; then on December 4, 1963, the document was solemnly ...

When I was a lad—I had not yet left school—I was taken to see at the Savoy Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, then young like myself ...

In the course of my years in Rome, I was invited again and again by Bavarian Radio to give meditations on the high points of ...

The most awesome sentence which has been pronounced against our times may well be this: We have lost our innocence. To say that does not ...

What is a heresy, and what is the historical importance of such a thing? Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely ...

When that first Proverb-Maker who has imposed upon all peoples by his epigrams and his fallacious half-truths, his empiricism and his wanton appeals to popular ...

When Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was voted the ‘greatest book of the century’ in a nationwide poll at the beginning of 1997 the ...

I am perfectly aware that this is a terribly sensational book, and open to innumerable criticisms on that account, as well as on many others ...

Saint Catherine of Genoa was born in the Vicolo del Filo in that city, in 1447. She was of the great Guelph family of Fiesca, ...

Love is primarily in the will, not in the emotions or the glands. The will is like the voice; the emotions are like the echo ...

The sun was setting on the fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord's grace eleven hundred and forty-five. In the little garden ...

IN GOD’S searching presence, Augustine undertakes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace which his life has been-and ...

This title is somewhat startling. Yet, Dear Reader, if you peruse this little book, you will see for yourself how well deserved it is. The ...

Consecration sets apart a person or thing for a sacred purpose. Every Catholic should be consecrated to Mary. Our Lady of Fatima, on October 13th, ...

Often today we hear sensible people complaining about the immodesty in dress that is seen everywhere and unfortunately even in our churches. But, objectively speaking, ...

The perfection of all motherhood is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, because she is the only mother in all the world who was "made to ...

Our Lord came on earth expressly to give us a perfect Redemption. He gave us a Law of Love, a Religion in every way to ...

What is related in these pages is of the greatest importance. Though the events in question took place in Germany, what we give here is, ...

THE emotion of friendship is amongst the most mighty and the most mysterious of human instincts. Materialistic philosophers delight in tracing even the most exalted ...

HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord (John 8:12). By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life ...

His Being in itself, and the excellence of His Perfections Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of ...

1.  Friends of the Cross, you are like crusaders united to fight against the world; not like Religious who retreat from the world lest they ...

In our former book we dealt fully enough with a few of the chief points about the heathen worship of idols, and how those false ...

Dear reader, I request you to read this Preface for your own satisfaction as well as mine. The flower-girl Glycera was so skilled in varying ...

The 1983 Code of Canon Law entrusts to the Apostolic See and the episcopal conferences the authority to approve translations of the Sacred Scriptures in ...

The following meditations will probably rank high among many similar works which the contemplative love of Jesus has produced; but it is our duty here ...

In the Western Catholic tradition the term “prayer” covers many different activities. The following pages mainly concentrate on mental prayer: prayer that consists of facing ...