but against natural law, which would have included her. Adapted from an article by Canon Daniel-Joseph Lallement (1892-1977) Professor of Metaphysics at the Catholic Institute of Paris

distance. The monastery was completed in 1858. It had been built upon request of the Chaldean Patriarch Joseph VI Audo (1847-1878), who needed a place to move the monks of the very ancient Rabban Hormizd Monastery

The information was confirmed from Siberia by the Apostolic Administrator of Novosibirsk, Bishop Joseph Werth. Surprising as it may seem from a Catholic point of view, “the Orthodox confessions are not

When Mary accepted her miraculous pregnancy, she probably knew that no one would believe her. If Joseph had decided not to marry her, she would have been publicly humiliated. She was determined to sacrifice

that it was not an exaggeration of ultra-devout people, but truths that are more than ever valid." Joseph, Cardinal Ratzinger Excerpts from Vittorio Messori, The Ratzinger Report – Ignatius, 1985

In the darkest hours of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), Mary appeared to two boys (Eugene and Joseph Barbedette) as a lady dressed in a dark blue robe, sprinkled with stars, a crown on her head over

Consecration to Our Lady As the Father has chosen you, Mary, to be His immaculate child, the wife of Joseph and the Mother of His beloved Son and of the whole Church in full communion with the Holy Spirit

the city of Las Piñas, Philippines, a devotion that had almost disappeared is making a comeback. St Joseph Parish, home to the world-famous bamboo organ, is also a shrine to the image of Our Lady of Consolation

Knots in 2018 to offer it to Pope Francis, on the occasion of the visit to the Vatican of Ambassador Joseph Baek-Man Lee. This version is unique, because it is not a simple copy: the artist represented the

in Christ. Mary was a good guide: she led the Child Jesus to the temple, which proves that she and Joseph gave him a solid religious education from an early age. In the passage of the Child Jesus found in