Semper Fi Catholic

By Marc Massery For 20 years, Susan Liljedahl of Fairfield, Iowa, had been away from the Sacraments. But after she started praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet — and witnessing miracles — she came back to the Church. Even though Susan was raised Catholic in an Italian-American family, when she married h...

Parishioners stop teen armed with rifle from entering church during Mass
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Even though Blessed Imelda was only eleven years old when she died, she was named The Protectress Of First Holy Communicants by Pope St. Pius X. There had to be a very special reason for this great honor bestowed on her by the Holy Father. Blessed Imelda Lambertini was born in Bologna, Italy in the ...

"Scruples are an infirmity which will make a truce with a man, but very rarely peace; humility alone comes off conqueror over them."

Blessed Ladislas was born at Gielniow, a town in the diocese of Gniezno, Poland. The very first fruits of his life he offered to God, who alone had the right to them. In compliance with the wishes of his parents, he pursued his studies at the University of Cracow, and after making great progress in ...

"The scrupulous should remit themselves always and in everything to the judgment of their confessor, and accustom themselves to have a contempt for their own scruples."

Amen! Thanks Marie!

Oklahoma Catholic parish hit by tornado; tabernacle unharmed and sanctuary candle still lit https://catholicvote.org/oklahoma-catholic-parish-hit-by-tornado-tabernacle-unharmed/?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGTAOKsS5LRt-q7A4btXEjIHG1m9w_9qLAy6ysRv52jkMs1tWSSEfYMBkWUwLTg1cai7HCL5lc8F_Yu5f2Qfyan5jSFzvWLIw...

NOVENA TO THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-to-the-holy-spirit-for-the-seven-gifts-309 This Novena begins on the day after the Solemnity of the Ascension, Friday of the 6th Week of Easter, even if the Solemnity of the Ascension is transferred to th...

Saint John of Ávila (feast day: May 10) is one of the Catholic Church's most recent Holy Doctors, designated on Oct. 31, 2012. On the occasion, he was praised by Pope Benedict XVI for being “constantly grounded in the sacred Scriptures, passionately concerned for the truth and an outstanding precurs...

"If those who are molested by scruples wish to know whether they have consented to a suggestion or not, especially in thoughts, they should see whether, during the temptation, they have always had a lively love to the virtue opposed to the vice in respect of which they were tempted, and hatred to th...

Canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati COMMENTARY: The soon-to-be saint is the antidote to so much of what ails our world. https://www.ncregister.com/features/pier-giorgio-frassati-canonization-saint-for-young-people?utm_campaign=NCR&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_kVlGCgLuToFnZsBe9C-GKotTIyiqz6GC24...

Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, a great Father and teacher of the Church, was born into a Christian family of eminent lineage in the year 329, at Arianzos (not far from the city of Cappadocian Nazianzos). His father, also named Gregory (January 1), was Bishop of Nazianzus...