Richard the Lionheart - The Importance of a Great Heart
The days are going by slowly in the far East, while the difficulties only increase. The spirit of the combatants begins to fade… Everywhere are seen enemy warriors with their bows and scimitars. The city of Jaffa is defended by just 3,000 Christian warriors, while Saladin attacks it with all …
Nicolle Ouverney Spitz
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31, May 2025
Isabella I of Castile - A Truly Catholic Queen
The year is 1462. In little Madrigal, a village on the edge of the Kingdom of Castile, an eleven-year-old girl lives a childhood already marked by the sign of suffering. Little Isabella is fatherless and lives with her mother, a lady tormented by mental disorders. Perhaps these early sufferings are …
Íñigo María de Oyarzábal Gutiérrez-Barquín
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31, May 2025
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - The Man With Six Heads
Whether as a hero or a villain, you could say that Talleyrand is a fairytale character… Of princely extraction, born in an “enchanted land”, which was the old France of the Ancien Régime, the kingdom of good taste, etiquette and douceur de vivre,1 Charles-Maurice finds in his story a surprising …
Raphaël Six
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31, May 2025
Priesthood – St. John Marie Vianney, Model of Priests - “After God, the priest is everything!”
Little John Marie Vianney, just four years old, was still playing when, on the other side of the world, a prophecy was published about… St. John Marie Vianney. In that year of 1790, Fr. Manuel Sousa Pereira, OFM, published in the city of Quito, Ecuador, a revelation that the Mother …
Vinícius Lima
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30, April 2025
The Priesthood, Before and After Christ
One of the most contrasting scenes in the Bible became the backdrop for the institution of the priesthood. Moses had spent forty days with God on Sinai and received the tablets of the Law; the Hebrew people, for their part, prevaricated by prostrating before a golden calf. Coming down from …
João Pedro Serafim Freitas Pereira
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30, April 2025
Apparitions of the Merciful Jesus to St. Faustina - God’s Mercy Shown to Mankind
The Holy Gospels reveal in their inspired pages the wealth of nuances in the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in some of His infinite attributes. At one moment, it is the divine wrath of the One who single-handedly drives dozens of money changers out of the Temple that shines …
Matheus Henrique Vieira
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31, March 2025
The Diary of a Chosen Soul
Genuine Christian literature can well be compared to an immense treasure chest filled with the most varied precious objects. There is nothing lacking in this universe of wonders: from the writings of the Fathers of the Church, which offer us the most solid foundations of the Catholic Faith, to the …
Sr. Mariana Quimas
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31, March 2025
The Sacrament of Confession - Did Jesus Christ Institute Confession?
In proclaiming that man’s life on earth is a struggle (cf. Jb 7:1), Job is only recalling the fierce clash that takes place within each person, in the choice between good and evil. Tainted by sin, human nature is weakened to such an extent that it cannot practise virtue steadily …
Nelson José Camilo López
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28, February 2025
Why and How to Confess?
Judas Iscariot, seeing that Jesus had been condemned to death, went to the Temple to dispose of the unlawful money for which he had sold his Master. Arriving there, shrouded in darkness and filled with despair, he said to the chief priests: “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” And …
Sr. Maria Cecília Veas
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28, February 2025
Great conversions – Theodore Ratisbonne, a true son of Israel - From the Synagogue to the Catholic Church
From that moment, Theodore’s life would take a different turn. Leaving the house, he met his brother. “Where are you going?” he asked, clasping his hand. “Close by,” Theodore replied. In fact, it was “close by”… He was about to take just one step to reach his desired destination: one …
Sr. Patricia Victoria Jorge Villegas
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31, January 2025