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“Do you know,” Blessed Fulton Sheen once said, “that I think perhaps we spend too much time—there must be some—praying for the departed souls and not enough time praying to them? Take the example of parents, husbands that are dead, wives, children. They are our intercessors. And perhaps we limit their influence in heaven simply because we do not sufficiently invoke them.”

“Our whole life is nothing but a race towards death, in which no one is allowed to stand still for a little space, or to go somewhat more slowly, but all are driven forwards with an impartial movement, and with equal rapidity.” —St. Augustine, City of God, 13.10

Across social media this time of year, you’ll likely see an unusual Catholic chapel: an ossua...

It has been said that the saints are God’s most beautiful works of art in human flesh and blood. Our readings for the Solemnity of All Saints tell...

At the first college retreat I led, I made a strict no phone policy. It was helped by the fact that the retreat center we were using had no cell service. When I first announced it to the group, there was a mix of shock and fear. They had never been disconnected before. Their entire lives have been lived under the blue glow of some kind of screen. Their childhoods we...

During his ministry, St. Paul spoke about a war being waged in the world that is not from the world, a war fought against Principalities and Dominions. It is a war crafted by ultra-potent, preternatural intellects, obsessed...