Another question Catholics are often asked: why did the Jews reject Jesus? Pick up a Catholic Bible and count the books: 73. Pick up a Protestant Bible and count again: 66. Seven books are missing — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, and 1 and 2 Maccabees — along with the Greek … Read more
Another story of the power of intercessory prayer: the forgotten saint who saved thousands with prayer. She is famous for a number Augustine never wrote In a rented room at Ostia, the port of Rome, a woman of 56 lay dying a long way from the country where she was born. She told her two … Read more
A preacher, 2,000 farmers, and the empire that had just taken Constantinople In July 1456, a 70-year-old Franciscan friar stood in front of roughly 2,000 farmers armed with slings and scythes, and pointed at an Ottoman army of some 60,000 men. He was not a soldier. He had been a lawyer. And within hours, the … Read more
Introduction When most Catholics hear the name “Guadalupe,” they immediately think of Mexico, of Juan Diego’s tilma, and the Virgin surrounded by stars. But long before that—two centuries earlier—a miraculous discovery unfolded in the mountains of Spain. There, a poor shepherd found not just a lost cow, but a buried statue of the Virgin of … Read more
