The Brown Scapular

“Those who die wearing this scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.” Do you wear a brown scapular?  If not, then you must get one! In 1251 Simon Stock was the superior general of the Carmelites. This religious order had been undergoing persecution,...

Interview with Sr Lucia in 1957

Below is Fr Fuente’s brief 1957 interview with Sister Lucia of Fatima. On December 26, 1957 Father Augustin Fuentes, who was preparing to become the postulator of the causes for beatification of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, met with Sister Lucy at her convent in...

Quo Vadis Irelanda?

By Frances Hogan Ireland, where are you going? Do you know what path you are on? Do you realise the direction you are taking? The world is watching in disbelief as a Catholic country dismisses its inheritance and its culture….but for what? No country can survive...

Mary – A very special Mother

By Fr John Keane There are twenty one in my friend Joe’s family, he has twenty brothers and sisters.  It is very difficult to keep tabs on them to know where they all are at any time.  When he comes home to his dear Mam and asks her where is Eileen today she...

The Need for Repentance

By Fr Brian McKevitt OP The German Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in Auschwitz in 1945, wrote a lot about what he called “cheap grace”. He was fiercely opposed to it.  “Cheap grace,” he wrote, “is the deadly enemy of...