A Hero for Purity and Innocent Life
In the late 1800s a Ugandan page (servant to the king) by the name Charles Lwanga was subject to persecution following his resistance to illicit advances from the King. Charles was known for protecting the younger pages from King Mwanga who engaged in ritualistic...
Mary As Our Healing Mother As Depicted by Caravaggio
by Rebecca Wilson In this month of May, we focus on the great gift that Mary is to the Church and to our lives. While on the cross, Christ gave us his mother, Mary. This was not a small gesture, but an invitation for all of us to turn to her, seek her intercession,...
Mary’s Role in the Completion of Salvation History Revealed in Our Lady of Fatima
In 1917, Our Blessed Mother appeared to three shepherd children with a grave warning for our time and a plea to rely on her intercession for the salvation of the world. It is in the apparitions of Fatima that Mary’s identity as our mother in salvation is more fully...
Responding to Jesus’ call to “Speak to the whole world about my mercy.”
“From all My wounds, like from streams, mercy flows for souls, but the wound in My Heart is the fountain of unfathomable mercy. From this fountain spring all graces for souls. The flames of compassion burn Me. I desire greatly to pour them out upon souls. Speak to the...
