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Marian apparitions and messages are not all that rare — although those that are formally approved by the Church are. One that has not received that approval happened 20 years ago in Texas. It had a powerful impact on the community. And a local paper takes a look back at the controversy surrounding the event:…

Last month, it was reported that Blessed Damien would finally be named a saint. Another miracle, we were told, had been attributed to his intervention. Now the woman who received that miracle is at last telling her story. From the Associated Press: When cancer spread into her lungs, doctors told Audrey Toguchi she had six…

August the 10th marks the feast of a great deacon and martyr of the Church, St. Lawrence. He famously died while being burned to death on a grill. (Significantly, the feast day which precedes his, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, or Edith Stein, also commemorates a martyrdom by fire — hers, in Auschwitz.) Below…

A friend sent this picture my way, and it has to be one of the most beautiful renderings of the Blessed Mother I’ve seen. It’s Our Lady of the Southern Cross, patroness of World Youth Day 2008. She is also known as Help of Christians. (By happy coincidence, her feast day is my wedding anniversary,…
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