Just when you think author Susan Tassone has found all there is to find about praying for the souls in purgatory — after having already written eight books on the subject — the “Purgatory Lady” has ...

I was an exhibitor at a Catholic trade show in the mid-1990s. It was lunchtime, and most people had already gone to eat when I looked up and, to my amazement, I saw Sister Faustina Kowalska gilding ...

Sunday is the Feast of The Divine Mercy, a devotion to the merciful love of God. The devotion arose from apparitions of Jesus seen by St. Faustina Kowalska. (Credit: CNS.) Listen ROME – Sunday is the ...

The Rev. Gus Puleo submitted this column prior to his death on April 3, 2024. He served as director of the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and the Spanish Department at St. Charles Borromeo ...

For sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Saint Faustina is forever linked to the feast of Divine Mercy, which is the Sunday after Easter, the Divine Mercy chaplet ...

On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis will offer Mass in a church containing the relics of both St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II. This will be the second year that the pope has chosen to ...

A once-obscure nun from 1930s Poland would probably be surprised to find that she is the subject of a play travelling all across the United States in 2014. But popular demand was what ultimately drove ...

ROME — Because Pope Benedict XVI was seen as a man of tradition, it was often easy to miss the innovative aspects of his papacy. In equal-and-opposite fashion, because Pope Francis is seen as a ...

FAIRBANKS — In 1933, St. Faustina, then a Polish nun and mystic, had a vision of an impending chastisement. In the vision, an angel of the Lord was to strike at a unnamed city. St. Faustina began ...

The Feast of Divine Mercy will be held at St. Maria Goretti Parish, Laflin Road, Laflin, on Sunday, April 12. Celebrant this year will be Monsignor Neil J. Van Loon, pastor of St. Maria Goretti Parish ...