For St. Catherine, the merciful love of God so essentially defines who He is that, along with St. Augustine and St. Thomas, Catherine understands that it is precisely despair of His mercy that constitutes the only unforgivable sin.
May 13, 2022, marks the 105th anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at Fatima. Our Lady continues to invite us to renewed hope, to deeper conversion of our hearts to Christ, and to remind us of her loving intercession before her Son for all our needs and prayers.
The Church calls on us all to pursue the New Evangelization in order to establish a Culture of Life that will lead to the advent of a Civilization of Love.
On his feast day, recalling the Belgian priest's extraordinary 16-year ministry to the victims of Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in the untamed wilderness of a remote Hawaiian island.
We will not presume to outline here the whole teaching of St. Catherine's masterpiece, The Dialogue. Rather we will focus on the theme of Divine Mercy as it appears in the book.
The pregnancy was unplanned. It was a situation I would describe as a “Mary Moment” — a circumstance that parallels an incident in the life of the Blessed Mother.
The war continues, and the needs in Ukraine grow more gigantic every day. Your help is needed! 100 percent of your donation does directly to those in need.
The month of May, a beautiful month of new life and blossoms, calls us to give every thought and worry to God through Mary, thus truly bringing about new life.