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A leading Iraqi prelate called on world governments this summer to increase their efforts to defeat ISIS and restore land and property to some 120,000 exiled Iraqi Christians. Marking the first anniversary of ISIS’s capture of Mosul, Syrian Catholic Archbishop Yohanna Mouche called on “people who have the...
Seven-year-old Carmen has an extraordinary story. Because of her Blessed Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin, the parents of Saint Therese of Lisieux, were canonized on Sunday in Saint Peter’s Square. The little girl was born prematurely in Spain in 2008 at just six months into pregnancy. She was fighting...
A priest who witnessed to a miracle in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1940s was tortured and beaten to death for refusing to recant what his parishioners had seen. And now Catholics from the country are honoring his heroic virtue and pushing for him to be recognized as a martyr. At...
The regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, said that when a person believes he is dealing with a case of diabolical possession, it should be handled by an exorcist instead of a confessor. During a seminar the bishop said that in cases of visions, “diabolical, mystic and supposedly...
The Spanish daily “La Razon” has published an article on the pro-life conversion of a former “champion of abortion.” Stojan Adasevic, who performed 48,000 abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, is now the most important pro-life leader in Serbia, after 26 years as the most renowned abortion doctor...
Is an exorcist afraid? What is the devil’s favorite sin? These and other questions were tackled in a recent interview with the Dominican priest, Father Juan José Gallego, an exorcist from the Archdiocese of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It has been nine years since Fr. Gallego was appointed as...
