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What, Why, and How: Make A Spiritual Communion

What, Why, and How: Make A Spiritual Communion

When we are unable to receive Holy Communion, Catholics are encouraged to make a spiritual communion. But what is a "spiritual communion," and how do we make one properly?What Is A Spiritual Comm...

3 Things To Pray For In This Pandemic

3 Things To Pray For In This Pandemic

When I was little, and very sick with the flu, the slow passage of time seemed like an eternity. The suffering was real. I couldn't imagine being well, and I couldn't see how I could go on for many...

Pray The Actual Prayer For Epidemics

Pray The Actual Prayer For Epidemics

There is a prayer for everything. The resources that Our Lord gives us through the Church are abundant. Back in 1614, Pope Paul V promulgated the Rituale Romanum, or Roman Ritual. In its list of R...

St. Patrick Has A Prayer For Our Current Crisis

St. Patrick Has A Prayer For Our Current Crisis

We are always in need of the peace which only Christ can give—but we don't always know it. We are usually too distracted by life to allow ourselves the quiet space we need to hear the "still small...

Celebrating God's Greatest Gift: Our March for Life Experience

Celebrating God's Greatest Gift: Our March for Life Experience

Life is a gift. A mysterious gift. We receive it—we do not create it.God gave us life because He desired to share His perfect and infinite goodness. “God created the world for something like the s...

Grace Kelly Prays with Fr. Patrick Peyton [Video]

Grace Kelly Prays with Fr. Patrick Peyton [Video]

During her life and after her death, Grace Kelly captivated people. She radiated elegance, beauty, class, femininity, and poise. She was both an icon and an ideal. At the same time, she was modest ...

Bring Back the Epiphany Party!

Bring Back the Epiphany Party!

Have you noticed? The secular, salesy, toss-Baby-Jesus-out-with-the-bathwater celebration of Christmas has a riptide effect. It sweeps us up before the turkey leftovers are ziplocked and the pump...

So You Want To Hear A Catholic Ghost Story?

So You Want To Hear A Catholic Ghost Story?

It's an interesting insight into human nature that we like to get good and scared once in a while—on condition, of course, that we feel secure in our general surroundings.  Toddlers bubble over w...

How to Redeem Lost Time with St. Teresa of Avila

How to Redeem Lost Time with St. Teresa of Avila

Can you imagine a life without regret? What a gift that would be. Most of us, however, as fallen human beings, are in the same boat: we have regrets, and if there was something we could do about th...

Fulton Sheen's Miracle: An Interview with Bonnie Engstrom

Catholics are eagerly awaiting the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose profound, practical, and even electrifying teaching has pierced hearts around the world.This past July, the Cat...