Faith and Spirituality

Pope Leo XIV Urges Spanish Pilgrims to Follow the Example of St. Thomas of Villanova

December 29, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, News and Culture

Pope Leo XIV welcomed a group of Spanish pilgrims to the Vatican during the Octave of Christmas, expressing gratitude for their journey and encouraging them to follow Christ by learning from the faithful witness of the saints. The pilgrims came from the Parish of Santo Tomás de Villanueva in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, traveling nearly […]

Celebrating the True Meaning of Christmas

December 25, 2025December 27, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, Family and Kids

The Christmas Day celebration in my sister Judy’s family includes a birthday cake. It’s brought out after dinner and the candles are lit. The children hover over it waiting to blow out the candles and we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. It’s a great lesson for the kids and reminder for the adults about the […]

Preparing for Christmas with St. Joseph

December 24, 2025December 23, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

St. Joseph gives us a wonderful example on how to live Advent in preparing for Christmas. God chose him to be Mary’s virginal husband and to safeguard her perpetual virginity with his life. He sensed that Mary’s physical virginity represented something more, a spiritual virginity, a sinlessness that entailed Conception, that God kept a perfect […]

Pope Leo XIV Urges Young People to Choose Reconciliation This Christmas

December 19, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

As the Church draws closer to the celebration of the Lord’s Nativity, Pope Leo XIV has offered young people a clear and practical invitation for the Christmas season: make peace with someone close to you. Meeting with young members and leaders of Italian Catholic Action, the Holy Father emphasized that authentic peace begins in the […]

Pope Leo XIV: Finding Christ’s Hope in Holy Restlessness

December 17, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, Relevant In Rome

Ashley Noronha joined John Morales on Morning Air to reflect on Pope Leo XIV’s Wednesday General Audience from December 17, delivered in the final days of the Jubilee Year as Christmas marks the new liturgical year. The Holy Father returned to a theme that has marked much of his preaching over the past year: Christian […]

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

December 12, 2025December 2, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Four days ago we celebrated a feast in honor of the Patroness of the United States. Today we honor the Patroness of the Americas, all the countries of the Western Hemisphere, Our Lady of Guadalupe. She was responsible for the greatest conversion of all time. During the ten years after Mary appeared four times to […]

Pope Leo: The Immaculate Conception, Mary’s Fiat, and Our Daily “Yes” to God

December 8, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Leo XIV invited the Church to contemplate the beauty of Mary’s faith, and to renew our own willingness to welcome Christ. Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus, the Holy Father reflected on Mary’s unique grace, her freedom to respond, and the […]

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

December 8, 2025December 2, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

In 1519 the first European, a Spanish explorer, saw the Mississippi River, the name of which comes from the language of a Native tribe and means “Great River.” But in 1673, another European explorer, the Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette came upon the river and named it “River of the Immaculate Conception.” The Immaculate Conception was […]

Advent and Mary’s Immaculate Conception

December 7, 2025December 1, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality

Advent is a time to prepare for Christmas, for the birth of the Messiah, the Immanuel—God with us—the Incarnate Word of God. We do this with the Novena to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, God’s way to prepare Mary to receive the child Jesus on the first Christmas. The Immaculate Conception is […]

Join Fr. Rocky and Drew Mariani in St. John, Indiana for a Special Family Rosary!

December 4, 2025December 15, 2025 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, Family and Kids

Join Fr. Rocky and Drew Mariani for a very special Family Rosary Across America LIVE broadcast at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion in St. John, Indiana on Thursday, December 11 at 7pm – you don’t want to miss it! This special outdoor broadcast will take place in the Family Pavilion on the Noche Guadalupana, the eve of the feast of Our Lady […]

How far would you drive to attend Sunday Mass?

December 4, 2025September 10, 2026 Articles, Faith and Spirituality, The Patrick Madrid Show

“Okay, Patrick, here’s the deal. Just moved to a pretty remote part of North Carolina and there isn’t a Catholic church within a hundred miles of here, and the drive is a good 2 hours each way, making it pretty tough. Here is the question: Is it better to a non-Catholic church (probably Baptist) just […]

Pope Leo XIV Issues Apostolic Letter: “In Unitate Fidei”

November 24, 2025 Articles, Catechesis, Faith and Spirituality

As the Church prepares for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming trip to Türkiye, the Holy Father has released a new Apostolic Letter, In unitate fidei, to mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. Published on the Solemnity of Christ the King, the document offers the faithful a fresh invitation to renew their love […]

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