Shortly after 7PM little Therese died this very same evening in 1897. I was working tonight and forgot. She died much like Our Lord, suffoca...

September 28 Albino Luciani 1912-1978 The Servant of God, Pope John Paul I Holy Father, pray for us, now and at the hour of our death. Amen

The Holy Helpers. The two physician saints are depicted here in one of their most famous posthumous miracles. They replaced the diseased leg...

I read with joy that the Holy Father's cause is progressing well. He was like a shooting star, having reigned for only a month. He humbl...

Monk and mystic - friend of animals. My favorite saint from the Russian calendar. He founded, if my memory serves me, the famous Monastery o...

He invented the word 'nerd'. I never knew that. I didn't like Dr. Seuss as a kid because I early on developed a taste for fine...

Or, Our Lady of Mercy. Today's feast of Our Lady is primarily celebrated in South American countries and in Spain. It is the titular fea...

The priest with the stigmata. I painted this icon of Padre Pio several years ago, before he had been beatified. It now resides in the exquis...

Photo edited/ censored for nudity. Did anyone but me watch the PBS documentary by Ken Burns on Andy? What a trip...down memory lane. I have ...

Convert? Brother Roger of Taize was murdered by an insane woman not long after Pope John Paul II's death. A mild controversy arose at t...

An approved apparition with spurious secrets... There are supposedly secrets from this apparition that foretell incredible and apocalyptic s...

Today is the feast day of one of my favorite saints, Joseph of Cupertino, Franciscan priest and mystic. When I lived in Assisi I was permitt...

That would be reverse racism. (Photograph of Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona from the 1930 London production of Sha...

Now new ones... Even involving Sr. Lucia of the Immaculate Heart, the visionary of Fatima, shown here at her funeral. (But this isn't t...

Burning Man (Painting by Andre Durand. I did not use the real title.) We can know that a chastisement is being prepared for us without divin...

Pictured; The Execution of Savonarola. Indeed, his cause for cannonization is currently under study. From Zenit archives, an interview with ...

Girolamo Savonarola (Born at Ferrara in 1452 – Died at Florence, 1498.) An Italian Dominican priest and, briefly, ruler of Florence. Known f...

Fund raising for Church restoration. At least the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis is not the only Catholic church criticized for their c...

"Miraculous" photos and vague messages. The photo here is over St. James Church in the hamlet of Medjugorje. It is called "Ou...

Curious painting, I'm sorry I do not know the artist. For me it represents Judaisim's history since the death of Christ. Well not re...