+St. Bernardine of Siena+ Over the past several years, the majority of questions posed by readers have involved how one is to conduct oneself among the Novus Ordo and Traditionalist sects regarding prayer in common with non-Catholics, attendance at and participation...

+ St. Robert Bellarmine+ Having laid aside various distractions and phantoms, it is time to regroup and start paying attention to our day-to-day spiritual life. This was the purpose of creating the prayer society — and it needs to be supplemented with material that...

+Third Sunday after Easter+ The following was sent to me by my daughter, Aimee, mother of five and a fervent pro-life activist. Like me she loved being pregnant and always felt there was a special, mysterious symbiosis between mother and child that she could never...

+St. Catherine of Siena+ I thought the controversy regarding the need for bishops to exist in order to fulfill Christ’s promises to be with His Church “unto the consummation” had been resolved, but I was mistaken. Silly me, thinking I could cite the popes and councils...

+St. Agnes of Monte Pulciano+  What in the World… Before delving into the issues raised regarding certain questions about Fatima, we would like to mention a few useful nuggets passed on by friends. During Holy Week, we received the following instructive video from...

    He Is Risen, Alleluia! (Excerpts from Pope Pius XII’s 1941 Easter message) Here below we are all exiles and wanderers; our true citizenship, which is limitless, is in Heaven, in eternity, in God. If worldly hopes have bitterly deluded you, remember that hope...

J+M+J Prayer Society Intention for April: Devotion to the Eucharist by refusing to dishonor it. (Read the life of St. Hermenegild for April 13) First Friday and Saturday April 1 & 2 There has been some dismay expressed regarding the objections to a prayer society...

+ St. Gabriel, Archangel + Some have asked if the Church allows lay people to participate in and establish prayer societies. I originally and mistakenly quoted Can. 686 on this subject years ago, but this canon does not refer to the type of society we recently invited...

+St. Louise de Marillac+ We launch today the prayer apostolate long ago suggested by a friend that has taken all of eight years to come to fruition. During that time a small group has formed, willing to pray with us and to accomplish the universal consecration of the...