A Story of Great Mercy: St. Maria Goretti & Alessandro Serenelli
St. Maria Goretti was born in 1890, one of six children from an impoverished farming family in Corinaldo, Italy. In 1899 her father, Luigi Goretti, moved the family to Le Ferriere di Conca, 40 mil...
A Prayer for America by John Carroll, First U.S. Bishop
Pope Pius VI named John Carroll the first bishop of the United States of America in 1789. His cousin, Charles Carroll, was one of America's Founding Fathers and the only Catholic to sign the Decla...
July: Month of Devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus
From the time of the Passion, when Christ poured out His blood for our salvation, the faithful have practiced devotion to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. In the month of July, the Church honors t...
Honoring the First Christian Martyrs of the Church at Rome
Like the martyrdom of the Apostles Peter & Paul: Apostles, Saints, and Martyrs for the Christian Faith, a great number of Christians perished at the hands of the Roman Emperor Nero during the t...
Peter & Paul: Apostles, Saints, and Martyrs for the Christian Faith
Christ saw it fitting that his Church should be built on the foundation of the great Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul (as well as on the blood of the many other First Martyrs of the Church at Rome)....
Six Good Reasons To Keep Praying For the Same Things
Do you ever feel like a broken record when you pray, always asking for the same things? One of our followers recently submitted this question for us to answer during a Facebook Live session:"I pray...
Entrust Yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with this Act of Consecration Prayer
This beautiful prayer of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was written by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), the French nun and mystic who promulgated the Sacred Heart devotion, in a l...
Sts. Thomas More & John Fisher: Martyrs for Faith & Freedom
Each year on June 22nd we celebrate the feast day of two notable saints and martyrs: Thomas More and John Fisher. It is fitting that these men share a feast day, because they were both Englishmen m...
The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a popular prayer found in many Catholic prayer books. It is a great prayer to recite before or after Mass, during Eucharistic Adoration, for the month of...
A Father's Prayer for His Wife and Children
Happy Father's Day to all of you fathers! Now more than ever, our world is in great need of strong, loving dads who are present to their family with a loving heart. God's grace is abundant and He ...