Our world has a love/hate relationship with the invisible realm. On the one hand, our scientism and materialism will not suffer talk of anything that cannot be measured and manipulated. On the other ...

About 15 years ago, on the Feast of the Guardian Angels, I heard a homily offered by a saintly priest who was serving as the chaplain for the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s ...

Pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday to pray the Angelus prayer at noon with Pope Benedict XVI. In his remarks, the Pontiff spoke of the importance of angels and also prayed for those ...

This week my grandson, Carter, who is nine years old asked me, “Nanni, are angels real?” The word “angel” comes from the word “angelos” a Greek word meaning “messenger.” The Bible says the angels were ...

In the recent past I had the experience of encountering an angel. This was not a person, though we often call someone who does something kind “an angel.” Rather, this was the spiritual being that ...

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Yesterday was a festival in the Church Year. Sept. 29 is widely recognized throughout the Western Christian Church as the date of the festival of St. Michael and All Angels. Many other festival and ...

Adapted from an Ethics at Noon presentation given at Santa Clara University on 25 September 2001. In spite of the many differences among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, they share a fundamental belief ...

Beloved brethren! The Holy Church, the loving mother of all her children, who gave them birth unto salvation, and takes upon herself all care to ensure that her children not lose their ...