New Saints To Be Declared on October 19th in St. Peter's Square
On October 19, 2025, Pope Leo XIV will raise to the altars seven blesseds whose lives testify to God’s boundless mercy. From a reformed occultist in Italy to martyrs and missionaries across the glo...
What Does It Mean to be a Catholic Mystic?
Have you marveled at accounts of the saints who received spiritual consolations and supernatural experiences, then wondered how they achieved that "special something" beyond the rest of us? We ofte...
Read St. Teresa of Avila's Famous Poem, in Her Own Handwriting
St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582), the great Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic, and Doctor of the Church, most famous for her classic spiritual writings, The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection, al...
St. Carlo Acutis...Pray For Us!
In many ways, Carlo Acutis was a regular teenager. He wore Nike shoes, loved sports, and was tech-savvy. He was also exceptional. In fact, he is on his way to becoming the first millennial saint of...
Bartolo Longo: The Satanic Priest Who Became a Saint
From Satanic priest to “Apostle of the Rosary,” Blessed Bartolo Longo’s story is one of the most dramatic conversions in Church history. Once enslaved by the occult, he discovered the mercy of God ...
Cling To The Rosary as the Creeper Clings To The Tree
Now I understand more deeply what Mother Teresa meant when she said to "cling to the Rosary as the creeper clings to the tree, for without Our Lady we cannot stand." A creeper vine cannot survive o...
When Heaven Intervened: Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Battle of Lepanto
The same Mother who had appeared to a humble indigenous man in Mexico was now sailing into battle against the Ottoman Empire. Her image was affixed to the mast of Admiral Giovanni Andrea Doria's sh...
Our Lady of the Rosary: Why This Ancient Prayer Is Perfect for Modern Times
The Rosary was given to the Church at a time of profound spiritual crisis. In the 13th century, the Albigensian heresy was tearing through southern France. This wasn’t a minor theological disagreem...
The Still Point of the Turning World: St. Bruno and the Search for Silence
In a world saturated with noise, the very idea of silence can feel like a distant dream. We are constantly bombarded with information, entertainment, and the incessant chatter of our own minds. Yet...
Most Catholics would say you'd be hard-pressed to find a devotion more cherished than the rosary. In fact, it has become so associated with Catholicism that even many non-Catholics are familiar wit...