2007-01-08 18:54:00 PST SAN MATEO-- A San Mateo woman is getting messages from God and painting them in five-foot-tall letters on the roof of her house. The city wants her to stop doing it. Her ...
Elijah fed by the ravens, by Giovanni Lanfranco. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The witness of the prophet Elijah echoes through the ages. The holy man’s life was filled with intense prayer and ...
In Memory of our beloved David Schwartz, who fell in battle sanctifying God’s name, on 27 Tevet, 5784 (8 January 2024). “Le’David Barchi Nafshi” is a compilation of essays written on the weekly Torah ...
Among the more than 37,000 ex votos in the Basilica of Notre Dame-des-Victoires in Paris there is one large plaque to the right of the sanctuary, close to the statue of Our Lady. (An “ex voto”, ...
This summer, a circuit clerk in Mississippi became one of the first public officials to recoil at the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that marriage equality is the law. That decision, she said in her ...
In September 2005, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints announced that Pope Benedict was instituting new procedures for the rite of beatification. "Canonization is the supreme glorification by ...
Vatican City (Fides Service ) – “A place reserved for divine worship is always a sign of the spiritual temple, the Church, composed of living stones, the faithful, united by the same faith, ...
One of the mistakes of nationalism is the belief that nationhood takes precedence over God. We think of Henry VIII’s establishment of a national church and the spilling of the blood of the martyrs on ...
I have often written about the holiness of the Servants of God Henry and Ineż Casolani, who I got to know through Fr Prof. Maurice Eminyan whose discernment I value. The couple were devoted to Jesus ...