“Surely enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos,” he wrote, explaining how he used to think. “Surely, Occam’s razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.” Dr. Paul Kalanithi was at the top of his...
“During the last two days Jesus has been telling me after Holy Communion: ‘My daughter, the devil will soon wage a great war against you,’” St. Gemma Galgani wrote to a priest. “These words I hear in my heart continuously. Please pray for me.” St. Gemma Galgani was a late...
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St. Padre Pio is considered one of the great saints of the 20th century, and one of the Church’s greatest mystics. Stigmata, bi-location, soul-reading, demon-fighting, and other miraculous phenomenon have all been attributed to the Franciscan. Below is a fascinating documentary about the great saint. At just under an...
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It was in 1958 that Catholic author Flannery O’Connor took a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, where the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary a century before. Lourdes is internationally renowned as a healing shrine. Often it is bathing in the waters of Lourdes that...
