This article originally appeared in the National Catholic Register. Adorable Baby James lights up the room with his cherubic face, dimpled smile and clear blue eyes. He looks the picture of health. Ten years ago, his mother, Ann Smith, was at the Ronald McDonald House next to a northeastern pediatric...
This article is an excerpt from Brandon Vogt’s book, Return: How to Draw Your Child Back to the Church. “My son is totally gone,” Dianne explained. “I love him, and I really hope he’ll see the light one day, but there’s absolutely no way he’ll ever...
Over the years, there have been hundreds of miracles attributed to Our Lady of Pompeii and the Irresistible Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii, commonly called the ‘54 Day Rosary Novena’. For Madame Katharina Tangari (1906-1989), a devout Catholic woman and German author renowned for her inspiring...
On November 22, 1963, at 2:30 pm central time, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. An hour earlier, across the Atlantic, C.S. Lewis had died at his home in Oxford. A few short hours later, in Los Angeles, the English writer Aldous Huxley, author of the dystopian...
Few realized when Small is Beautiful was published that E.F. Schumacher’s economic theories were underpinned by solid religious and philosophical foundations, the fruits of a lifetime of searching. In 1971, two years before the book’s publication, Schumacher had become a Roman Catholic, the final destination of his...
I cannot recall a time when I was not aware of God in my life. While other little boys were planning to be firemen or police, I often said, even at age seven or eight, “I want to be the Pope!” I jumped at the chance to become an altar...
