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The World Has Not Outgrown Dragons: St. Margaret of Antioch’s Enduring Witness

As with all ancient saints, St. Margaret of Antioch’s story is a blend of tradition, truth, legend, and mystery. While she was highly venerated in the Middle Ages and is still regularly invoked for intercession, her visibility in the Church Triumphant has waned over the years. While it is a shame wh...

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The Greatest Marriage Manual There Is

All the marriage books and articles in the world could fill entire libraries with endless volumes. With happy and healthy marriages becoming increasingly rare, it can be difficult to know where to look to learn how to build a solid marriage. Fortunately, the most popular book on earth happens to be...

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How Do I Know If I’m Following God’s Will?

Who or what is in control of my choices in life? This is the crucial question that St. Paul invites each of us to answer in his letter to the Romans 8:9, 11-13. He reminds us of our new status in Christ, writing, “Brothers and sisters, you are no longer in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the...

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Fulton Sheen’s Advice on Planning for Heaven

In my previous article, I shared a few of the insights that Archbishop Fulton Sheen taught me as I have grown older. Lessons about finding a new mission after retirement, remembering that we are made for eternity, and discovering the peace that comes from counting blessings instead of birthdays. As...

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Psalm 112: A Standard for Men

Throughout my adult life, I have spent a fair amount of time praying and meditating about being—or, more accurately, becoming—a good man, a good husband, and a good father. In recent years, by a great gift of Providence, I have become more devoted to the model of St. Joseph proposed by my Catholic f...

Jul 22, 2026 62

Satanic Attacks and the Prayer “Especially Suited” to Conquering Evil

A Visitor from Heaven, Part IV: Apparitions in Northern Italy In Part III, I sketched the troubled life of the Italian visionary Francesca Sgobbi, noting her remarkable humility and briefly tracing her journey through Poland. THE DEVIL’S ASSAULT Amid encounters with personal evil, Francesca repeated...

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The Same Weeds in the Wheat Field: Rome, Contraception, and Christ’s Call

While everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat. (Mt. 13:25) Things like that really happened in Christ’s time. People poisoned wells and sabotaged fields. They sowed weeds in their enemy’s wheat. Ancient Rome’s Decline What else did people do at the time of Christ? T...

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Pope Leo XIV to U.S. religious superiors: Prioritize community life

Pope Leo XIV this week urged U.S. religious superiors to prioritize community life, describing it as a place of “witness and strength.” The Vatican published the letter on July 22 addressed to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men in the United States being held in Phoenix from July 20–23. The le...

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Pope Leo XIV urges peace and nuclear disarmament in new book foreword

Pope Leo XIV has written a foreword to a new book, calling for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.Originally published by Vatican News, the pontiff’s text is part of the new book “Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,” published by the Vatican Publishing House (Libreria Editrice Vatican...

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Pope Leo XIV visits major Italian pilgrimage sites while on vacation

Pope Leo XIV visited two major pilgrimage sites in Italy while on vacation at Castel Gandolfo, stopping at the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity in Vallepietra and the St. Benedict Monastery in Subiaco.As announced by the Holy See Press Office, the pontiff traveled to the two pilgrimage sites on Ju...

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Vatican denies Marko Rupnik has been acquitted

The Vatican on July 22 denied reports circulating on blogs and social media that Father Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit accused by several women religious of sexual abuse, had been acquitted.Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, described reports that the judges overseeing the case ha...

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Pope Leo XIV names another Chinese bishop under Vatican-Beijing agreement

Pope Leo XIV has appointed another Chinese bishop under the agreement on episcopal appointments reached between the Holy See and authorities in Beijing during the pontificate of Pope Francis.Father Joseph Chang Yanfeng was ordained Wednesday as the new bishop of Chifeng in China’s Inner Mongolia reg...

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