spiritual growth. Mary risked her whole life when she committed to her exceptional motherhood and was never the same. We still talk about her today, so her courage definitely made a difference not just to her
cathedral had suffered enormous damage during the 2001 volcanic eruption. Since then, the city had never had a cathedral worthy of the name. It was therefore to give back to Goma a cathedral in her image
bitter experience— they are eyes of gentle pity, wondering sadness, and with something more in them, never yet known or expressed, something that makes her younger than sin, younger than the race from which
guests, I noticed a couple who would go to the chapel of the Apparitions to recite the Rosary, but who never attended Mass. I asked them why. This was their answer: ‘We are Lutherans. We read the Holy Scriptures
few sheep. Bernadette continued to say her Rosary all her life, and the sisters of her convent in Nevers attest that she recited it with fervor. Isn’t that remarkable, considering that she had received
Benedict XVI tells us: "The Rosary contains the saving force of the name of Jesus" (May 3, 2008). Mary never ceases to gather her children for this fight. In each Marian apparition she shows us the Rosary as
him also. Blessed Dominic looked his companion over carefully during this vision, because they had never met before. The next day he saw a man in a church and recognized him as being the same man that he
arrested him because of his Jewish origins and deported him to a concentration camp in Germany, which he never reached. He died of bronchial pneumonia in a holding camp in Drancy on March 5, 1944. "Praise to this
tradition, saints and mystics have also been unanimous in believing that the very humble Virgin never imagined she might be the mother of the Savior. This certainly was the great sign of the coming of
as a whole, is trustworthy and satisfactory," although like all private revelations, an apparition never becomes part of Catholic teaching. Individual Catholics can judge the evidence for themselves. Knock
