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By Karol Wojtyła  “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign of contradiction.” For the 1976 Lenten...

On the Feast of the Epiphany, anno domini 1412, in the French village of Domrémy, was born to James d’Arc and his wife Isabel an infant daughter. T...

By Mark Twain Joan of Arc, a mere child in years, ignorant, impoverished, unimportant, one day heard the voices of God’s messengers. Their message:...

By Johannes Jørgensen At the beginning of his classic biography of “le jongleur de dieu,” G. K. Chesterton sets forth three ways in which a “sketch...

By Jacques Maritain “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!” The Angelic Doctor, first published in 1931, presents the essent...

By Henri Daniel-Rops Sacred Scripture offers little detailed revelation about Mary, the Mother of God: just a few paragraphs to the beginnings of L...

By Ronald Knox The Christian life demands both action and speech. Christians must, in the words of St. James, “live by the word, not content merely...

By Fulton J. Sheen The Cross and the Crisis contends that the distress of modernity is fundamentally moral and religious in nature. Men, runs Chest...

By Ronald Knox The first of Ronald Knox’s three “Slow Motion” collections, The Mass in Slow Motion comprises fourteen sermons preached during World...

By St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J. | Introduction by Christian D. Washburn, Ph.D. The Seven Last Words from the Cross, first published in 1618 amidst t...

By Fulton J. Sheen The Cross of Christ sets the pattern for virtuous living. In the words of Pope Pius XI, the Cross “is the holy sign of redemptio...

By Fulton J. Sheen | Illustrated by Fritz Kredel “God so loved the world, that He gave up His only-begotten Son, so that those who believe in Him m...

By Fulton J. Sheen “Nothing,” declares Fulton J. Sheen, “is as relentless in unmasking a false way of life as war.” World War II exposed mankind’s ...