From the Regnum Christi website : Peter Seewald: The Church was shaken also by revelations about the double life of Marcial Maciel Degollado...
Extremely Rare Footage of St. Pio. I never wanted this You-Tube video to end.
Hat-Tip to Mark for telling me about this video. You can access Mark's excellent blog here .
Alphonse Ratisbonne and the Miraculous Medal. Part Two
See Part One for the beginning of the story on how Our Lady appeared to Alphonse in St. Andrew’s Church in Rome. The baron, having made t...
Alphonse Ratisbonne and the Miraculous Medal. A ‘test’ that changed his life. Part One
1842. A young French Jew, Alphonse Ratisbonne, was due to get married, but spent some time travelling on the continent. When he arrived in R...
Finding Love on the Internet. "When I saw her on my webcam, I fell for her…"
"When I saw her on my webcam, I fell for her…"
Padre Pio and the Irish Part Two
Padre Pio statue in Mamore Gap, Donegal, Ireland. In June 2002, this life-size statue of Padre Pio was erected and blessed in the Gap of Mam...
Padre Pio and the Irish Part One
This week I have been steeped in research on Ireland's recent economic history. I'm doing some journalism on how the faith in Irelan...
JFK's RIP prayer card - Catholics just don't make them like they used to
47 years ago today, JFK was murdered in broad day-light. While, it was an impossibility for me to ever meet JFK, but I did meet his sister. ...
Pope Benedict on Communion in the hand
During a long interview with Peter Seewald, Pope Benedict has said that: “I am not opposed in principle to Communion in the hand; I have bo...
Wilde Mary...
For my pro-life posts and anti-abortion newspaper articles I got: Stephen King. I’d like to believe that means the articles are more Shawsh...
The Real Story of The Exorcist Part Four. This part may upset some.
The introduction of a statue of St Michael the Archangel makes a huge difference to the exorcism...
The Real Story of The Exorcist Part Two. This part may upset some.
Stern Stuff! During the first ‘failed’ exorcism the priest’s arm is ripped from the shoulder to the wrist and needs 100 stitches. Then the p...
The Real Story of The Exorcist Part One
Skip to 1:40 minutes to get straight into the story that inspired the novel and the film The Exorcist. A valuable historical note is made ...
Padre Pio and Dan Brown (apparently) have something in common. I am not convinced.
Their writing styles! When I put samples of Padre Pio’s writings into the ‘I Write Like’ test, I found that Padre Pio’s writing style is m...
Padre Pio forbid all diabolic 'magic', and that would include children's 'toys'
Padre Pio prohibited all 'magic' and fortune telling. In November 1948, Padre Pio heard a lady’s confession. The lady gave an acco...
Kelly Clinger's painful testimony: "I had an abortion and I hate myself"
Kelly Clinger, who was a back-up singer for the pop star Britney Spears, has blogged about her abortions. "Someone asked if I had hea...
Padre Pio’s First Miracle – A burnt face is healed
It was the year 1908, and Padre Pio lived in the monastery of Montefusco. One day, he collected chestnuts in the forest nearby, and sent a b...
Do the Legion of Christ stand a chance of surviving? And may Pope Benedict save them from themselves? Part Two
Maybe it’s negative on both counts. Leading Catholic journalist, William Oddie, started a vital debate , ‘the superiors of the Legion of C...
Why a cruel recession grips Ireland...
From Daniel Hannan's excellent Daily Telegraph blog post . In the 1990s, you used to hear the argument that Ireland was growing thanks...
Padre Pio: “remove also the pictures of the bad women in the drawer of the table at home”
In the past number of days, as preparation for an anti-porn newspaper article, I have been reading lots of research on the devastating effec...
Instead of prison, a judge orders Irishman to climb Croagh Patrick and 'say a few prayers'
Joseph McElwee was ordered to climb the mountain in Co Mayo by Judge Seamus Hughes after being found guilty of threatening and abusing ga...